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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What happens on the wedding night?
(a) It is like old times in the country.
(b) Jacques gets sick and Christine has to stay with him.
(c) Christine goes to bed alone and Claude sketches.
(d) Claude is unable to make love to Christine.

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

5. 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 drinking cognac and weeping.
(c) he is ripping up his large canvas.
(d) he is furiously painting his vision of the Ile de la Cité.

6. 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 the new committe has changed its ideas.
(b) how popular he has suddenly become.
(c) how Bongand exerted his influence on the committee.
(d) what Fagerolles does to get it included.

7. Who takes charge of the funeral and getting Christine to the hospital?
(a) Sandoz.
(b) Bongrand.
(c) Ganière.
(d) Fagerolles.

8. Why does Sandoz stay away from Claude for a time?
(a) he is giving Claude the cold shoulder.
(b) he and Henriette are having problems.
(c) his novels are not selling now.
(d) he is grieving for his dead mother.

9. How do Claude's friends react to his latest painting?
(a) they hail it as a masterpiece.
(b) they think it is too small for a work by Claude.
(c) they look at it but do not comment.
(d) they want him to offer it to Naudet.

10. What is the wedding ceremony for Claude and Christine like?
(a) quick and exciting.
(b) elaborate and joyful.
(c) rushed and without emotion.
(d) plain but meaningful.

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

12. What does Claude seem to taunt Christine about from gossip he has heard?
(a) that Mme. Vandaze died and left fortunes to her servants.
(b) that she was too stupid to find a job.
(c) that God cursed her with an unnatural child.
(d) that a man was coming to the studio when Claude was away.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Claude at first not find his painting of the Dead Child?

2. What does Sandoz tray to talk Claude out of doing?

3. Who generally shows up on varnishing day?

4. Why are Sandoz and Claude depressed after visiting Dubuche in the country?

5. Why does Claude do a smaller version of his large painting?

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