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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Christine confront Claude about the nude woman in his painting?
(a) she says that woman is a curse on him.
(b) she says that woman is her rival for his affections.
(c) she says that woman is really her and he should come to her.
(d) she says that woman is a trollop seducing him.

2. Why is Christine under so much nervous tension after they get back to Paris?
(a) Claude seldom comes home.
(b) she thinks she might be pregnant again.
(c) the studio is small and Jacques is often in the way.
(d) too many people come to visit.

3. What is Mahoudeau's comment after the sculpture falls apart?
(a) I didn't like it anyway.
(b) God must be telling me something.
(c) this is what poverty gets you.
(d) there's plenty of time to start over.

4. How is the Dead Child painting finally approved for hanging in the Salon?
(a) Bongrand demands it.
(b) it is approved by mistake.
(c) it is considered a real masterpiece at last.
(d) Fagerolles uses his "charity" vote.

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

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

7. 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) the Ile de la Cité.
(d) Cathedral Notre Dame.

8. 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 so important that he has no time for them.
(d) he has become a snobbish art dealer.

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

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

11. 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 she was too stupid to find a job.
(d) that Mme. Vandaze died and left fortunes to her servants.

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

13. Why does Claude at first not find his painting of the Dead Child?
(a) it is hung near the exit in dim light.
(b) it is hung in a small room where almost no one goes.
(c) it is hung in a hallway.
(d) it is hung very high over large canvases.

14. What does Sandoz think might be better for true artists?
(a) to live in Italy instead of France.
(b) to develop a following in England.
(c) to keep all their works until their death.
(d) to live and die an unknown.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Christine suggests they go away somewhere to be happy, what is Claude's reply?

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

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

4. What is the wedding ceremony for Claude and Christine like?

5. When Sandoz comes to take Claude away from the studio, who do they find as a barker at a carnival?

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