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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Christine began to feel about her relationship with Claude?
(a) that she is playing second fiddle to a painting.
(b) that she has grown tired and ugly.
(c) that she made a mistake falling in love with Claude.
(d) that she knows how to get him back.

2. When Sandoz comes to take Claude away from the studio, who do they find as a barker at a carnival?
(a) Mahoudeau.
(b) Dubuche.
(c) Chaîne.
(d) Ganière

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(d) he is withdrawn and silent during dinner.

4. What is the irony of Sandoz's new house?
(a) it is in the same area as Irma's and Fagerolles's houses.
(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 large and ostentacious.

5. 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) this painting is more like the classics.
(c) Bongrand is now head of the committee.
(d) he submits it under an assumed name.

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

7. For a while, how does Claude make a fairly good living?
(a) painting flower still lifes for British tourists.
(b) copying the old masters.
(c) painting portraits of children.
(d) doing sketches for a newspaper.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Why has Dubuche been exiled to his father-in-law's home in the country?
(a) the pressure of building houses caused him to have a breakdown.
(b) he was never successful and now cares for his wife and sickly children.
(c) one of his designs became a laughing stock in Paris.
(d) it became clear that he really has no talent for architecture.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which friends of Claude's show up at the funeral?

3. What idea does Sandoz have that he thinks might change things for Claude?

4. When they find her, where is Christine?

5. How is the Dead Child painting finally approved for hanging in the Salon?

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