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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who lives directly across from Fagerolles's small but well appointed mansion?
(a) Naudet.
(b) Irma Bécot.
(c) Bongrand.
(d) Pierre and Henriette.

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

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

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

13. What breaks the solemn reverie of Sandoz and Bongrand at the cemetery?
(a) the lamenting of a funeral nearby.
(b) a parade passing by.
(c) the sound of a passing train.
(d) a sudden rainstorm.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Sandoz and Claude not go into the Café Baudequin that night?

2. After the Salon, how does Claude behave?

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

4. How does Christine confront Claude about the nude woman in his painting?

5. When they find her, where is Christine?

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