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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 he will think about it.
(c) that she sounds just like Sandoz.
(d) that he can only be happy in his studio.

3. 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 she was too stupid to find a job.
(c) that Mme. Vandaze died and left fortunes to her servants.
(d) that God cursed her with an unnatural child.

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

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

6. What is "varnishing day"?
(a) the day before the Salon opens.
(b) the day they redecorate the Salon.
(c) the day they frame the paintings.
(d) the day they allow art critics to view the paintings.

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

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

9. What does Sandoz point out to Claude?
(a) the many paintings using his open air style.
(b) that the critics are all looking at his painting.
(c) that the Dead Child is the only original thing hanging.
(d) that no one is laughing at him now.

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

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

12. 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 the new committe has changed its ideas.
(d) how popular he has suddenly become.

13. What time does Claude return to his studio home?
(a) about three in the morning.
(b) the next day.
(c) a week later.
(d) about dawn.

14. Who generally shows up on varnishing day?
(a) the riff-raff of Paris.
(b) only the Paris art critics.
(c) the elite of Paris society.
(d) the artists whose works are included.

15. Why is Christine afraid when she wakes to find Claude not in the bed with her?
(a) she thinks he is working too hard.
(b) she thinks he might be leaving her.
(c) she thinks he might be suicidal.
(d) she thinks he is destroying his paintings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mahoudeau's comment after the sculpture falls apart?

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

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

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

5. For a while, how does Claude make a fairly good living?

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