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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Christine suggests they go away somewhere to be happy, what is Claude's reply?
(a) that he will think about it.
(b) that she sounds just like Sandoz.
(c) hat he does not want to be happy, he only wants to paint.
(d) that he can only be happy in his studio.

3. Why does Claude think his painting of the dead Jacques may be accepted by the Salon committee?
(a) he submits it under an assumed name.
(b) Fagerolles promises to get it accepted.
(c) this painting is more like the classics.
(d) Bongrand is now head of the committee.

4. What does Claude blame Christine for when his painting does not come out the way he wants?
(a) that she keeps changing her position while posing.
(b) that she is no longer a good model.
(c) that she cannot keep Jacques away.
(d) that she makes too much noise in the studio.

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

6. Why are Sandoz and Claude depressed after visiting Dubuche in the country?
(a) he has become a snobbish art dealer.
(b) he has been reduced to a disrespected care giver.
(c) he has gone into politics in the provinces.
(d) he has become so important that he has no time for them.

7. Why does Mahoudeau's sculpture fall over?
(a) an earthquake shakes his studio.
(b) Chaîne smashes it out of jealousy over Mathilde.
(c) Claude accidentally bumps into it.
(d) as the room warms, the clay carving melts.

8. Why do Sandoz and Claude not go into the Café Baudequin that night?
(a) they see Fagerolles and Naudet there.
(b) the place has gone out of business.
(c) they see Ganière in there alone.
(d) they see Ganière there with Irma.

9. What does Sandoz think might be better for true artists?
(a) to live and die an unknown.
(b) to develop a following in England.
(c) to live in Italy instead of France.
(d) to keep all their works until their death.

10. How does Christine begin to resent Jacques?
(a) being irritated with his demands.
(b) hating to part with the extra money for his upkeep.
(c) blaming him for the loss of her virgin body.
(d) wishing he would go away.

11. When Christine awakes to find Claude gone, where does she find him?
(a) hanging from the ladder in front of his painting.
(b) dressing to go out into the cold.
(c) lying in Jacques's small bed.
(d) sitting by the fire drinking wine.

12. Why is Sandoz being successful as a novelist?
(a) he uses Claude's art on the cover of his books.
(b) he is no longer controversial.
(c) he refuses to change his ideas about modern writing.
(d) he has started turning out traditional prose.

13. Why does Claude do a smaller version of his large painting?
(a) to practice his new brush strokes.
(b) to check his colors.
(c) to show Bongrand.
(d) to submit to the Salon.

14. Which friends of Claude's show up at the funeral?
(a) no one.
(b) only Sandoz and Bongrand.
(c) fifty relatives from Plassans.
(d) all his old friends.

15. Why is Christine under so much nervous tension after they get back to Paris?
(a) she thinks she might be pregnant again.
(b) too many people come to visit.
(c) Claude seldom comes home.
(d) the studio is small and Jacques is often in the way.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "varnishing day"?

2. What time does Claude return to his studio home?

3. Whose painting called The Lunch Party is a slick, commercial imitation of Claude's open air style?

4. To stay close to Claude and fight her rival, the painting, what does Christine decide to do?

5. After the party at Sandoz's house, what does Christine do when Claude orders her to return home?

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