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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To stay close to Claude and fight her rival, the painting, what does Christine decide to do?
(a) clean his brushes and make great meals.
(b) be his nude model for the painting.
(c) take a knife to the painting.
(d) discourage Claude by saying it is not good.

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

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

4. Why do Sandoz and Claude not go into the Café Baudequin that night?
(a) they see Ganière in there alone.
(b) they see Ganière there with Irma.
(c) they see Fagerolles and Naudet there.
(d) the place has gone out of business.

5. 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.

6. 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 a trollop seducing him.
(c) she says that woman is her rival for his affections.
(d) she says that woman is really her and he should come to her.

7. 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 has become a shrine to his late mother.
(c) it is an eclectic and old fashioned abode for a very modern writer.
(d) it is large and ostentacious.

8. 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 he will think about it.
(c) that she sounds just like Sandoz.
(d) hat he does not want to be happy, he only wants to paint.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Claude's friends react to his latest painting?

2. What does Sandoz think might be better for true artists?

3. Why is Christine afraid when she wakes to find Claude not in the bed with her?

4. Who takes charge of the funeral and getting Christine to the hospital?

5. What are the Salon committee's reactions to Claude's Dead Child painting?

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