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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What distresses Christine when Claude returns home from the Salon?
(a) his refusal to take her to the Salon.
(b) his strange and cold manner.
(c) his unusually happy manner.
(d) his attempt to destroy his large unfinished canvas.

2. What idea does Sandoz have that he thinks might change things for Claude?
(a) throwing a surprise party for Claude and Christine.
(b) writing a novel about a painter like Claude.
(c) taking Claude on a trip to Italy.
(d) having another Thursday evening dinner at his house.

3. What is the subject of Claude's snow scene?
(a) snow on the tops of Paris buildings.
(b) a fine carriage drawn by two white horses.
(c) two children building a snowman.
(d) two ragged urchins eating stolen apples.

4. Why is Christine afraid when she wakes to find Claude not in the bed with her?
(a) she thinks he might be suicidal.
(b) she thinks he is working too hard.
(c) she thinks he is destroying his paintings.
(d) she thinks he might be leaving her.

5. When they find her, where is Christine?
(a) headed for the train station.
(b) posing nude for Claude's painting.
(c) lying half dead on the floor.
(d) holding Claude's head in her lap.

6. What time does Claude return to his studio home?
(a) a week later.
(b) about dawn.
(c) the next day.
(d) about three in the morning.

7. What painting is almost rejected before it is discovered to be one by a famous artist?
(a) a painting of a nude lady under a tree.
(b) a painting of blue poplars.
(c) a painting of a nude man and a clothed woman.
(d) a painting of people having a picnic outdoors.

8. What is the irony of Sandoz's new house?
(a) it is in the same area as Irma's and Fagerolles's houses.
(b) it has become a shrine to his late mother.
(c) it is large and ostentacious.
(d) it is an eclectic and old fashioned abode for a very modern writer.

9. How does Christine confront Claude about the nude woman in his painting?
(a) she says that woman is a trollop seducing him.
(b) she says that woman is her rival for his affections.
(c) she says that woman is really her and he should come to her.
(d) she says that woman is a curse on him.

10. How does Ganière drift away from the group of former art revolutionaries?
(a) by returning to the classics.
(b) by marrying his old maid music teacher.
(c) by spending all his time at concerts.
(d) by practicing the piano many hours a day.

11. When Christine opens the door of the bedroom, what is Claude doing?
(a) he is scraping off the paint on his large canvas.
(b) he is ripping up his large canvas.
(c) he is drinking cognac and weeping.
(d) he is furiously painting his vision of the Ile de la Cité.

12. For a while, how does Claude make a fairly good living?
(a) doing sketches for a newspaper.
(b) painting portraits of children.
(c) copying the old masters.
(d) painting flower still lifes for British tourists.

13. Why does Claude at first not find his painting of the Dead Child?
(a) it is hung near the exit in dim light.
(b) it is hung in a small room where almost no one goes.
(c) it is hung in a hallway.
(d) it is hung very high over large canvases.

14. What do Sandoz and Bongrand have to say about Claude's early works of art?
(a) they agree that they will go up in value.
(b) they agree that they led him in the wrong direction.
(c) they agree they were extraordinary pieces.
(d) they agree that they had only promise of greatness.

15. After the Salon, how does Claude behave?
(a) he throws himself back into his large painting.
(b) he puts on a façade of not caring.
(c) he happily shows himself in public.
(d) he refuses to see anyone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What breaks the solemn reverie of Sandoz and Bongrand at the cemetery?

2. What tragedy strikes the Lantier household one night?

3. Who generally shows up on varnishing day?

4. What purchases does Claude make to get started with his painting?

5. How is the Dead Child painting finally approved for hanging in the Salon?

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