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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What purchases does Claude make to get started with his painting?
(a) large paper and new pencils to make his sketches.
(b) new lights and a heater for the studio.
(c) new paints and brushes.
(d) a large frame and seamless canvas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Again under the spell of Paris, what does Claude do?
(a) paints night and day on his new masterpiece.
(b) talks a lot about his current work.
(c) makes sketches and plans work that never gets started.
(d) stays as far away from Jacques as possible.

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

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

14. What are the Salon committee's reactions to Claude's Dead Child painting?
(a) excited or indifferent.
(b) positive or skeptical.
(c) shock or amusement.
(d) disgust or pity.

15. How is Claude when he and Sandoz return to Paris and go to a restaurant?
(a) he is happy and resolved to return to his large canvas.
(b) he talks about quitting painting and starting to write.
(c) he is agitated and angry at how the country has changed.
(d) he is withdrawn and silent during dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the subject of Claude's snow scene?

2. When they find her, where is Christine?

3. What distresses Christine when Claude returns home from the Salon?

4. What do Sandoz and Bongrand have to say about Claude's early works of art?

5. Why has Dubuche been exiled to his father-in-law's home in the country?

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