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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What tragedy strikes the Lantier household one night?
(a) the studio catches on fire.
(b) Jacques dies alone in his bed.
(c) Claude falls from his scaffolding.
(d) Christine has a miscarriage.

3. What is the site that arouses Claude's enthusiasm after failing again to be included in the Salon?
(a) the Eiffel Tower.
(b) the Ile de la Cité.
(c) Cathedral Notre Dame.
(d) ice on the Seine.

4. What does Sandoz tray to talk Claude out of doing?
(a) placing a nude woman in his painting.
(b) giving no time to Jacques.
(c) working too many long hours.
(d) sending any more paintings to the Salon.

5. When he submits the snow scene to the Beaux-Arts Salon, what happens?
(a) it is highly praised.
(b) it is disqualified because of its size.
(c) it is damaged and returned to him.
(d) it is rejected.

6. What is Mahoudeau's comment after the sculpture falls apart?
(a) God must be telling me something.
(b) this is what poverty gets you.
(c) I didn't like it anyway.
(d) there's plenty of time to start over.

7. How does Irma Bécot get her revenge on Claude?
(a) by spreading gossip about him.
(b) by seducing him in her new mansion.
(c) by buying his painting and burning it.
(d) by seducing Christine.

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

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

10. What is it that Claude does not know while he waits to see if the Dead Child will be included in the Salon?
(a) how Bongand exerted his influence on the committee.
(b) what Fagerolles does to get it included.
(c) how popular he has suddenly become.
(d) how the new committe has changed its ideas.

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

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

13. Whose painting called The Lunch Party is a slick, commercial imitation of Claude's open air style?
(a) Chaîne
(b) Fagerolles.
(c) Bongrand.
(d) Dubuche.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Claude's mistaken idea about Chaîne?

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

3. What happens on the wedding night?

4. How do Claude's friends react to his latest painting?

5. What is the wedding ceremony for Claude and Christine like?

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