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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How do Claude's friends react to his latest painting?
(a) they think it is too small for a work by Claude.
(b) they hail it as a masterpiece.
(c) they look at it but do not comment.
(d) they want him to offer it to Naudet.

8. 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.

9. How does Claude afford a larger studio to work on his masterpiece?
(a) by painting murals for rich clients.
(b) by drawing from the capital of his inheritance.
(c) by selliing small nude paintings of Christine.
(d) by copying masterpieces of other artists.

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

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

12. What is Claude's mistaken idea about Chaîne?
(a) that he has not changed.
(b) that he is happy.
(c) that he is rich.
(d) that he is proud of his work.

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

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

15. 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 a trollop seducing him.
(d) she says that woman is really her and he should come to her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Christine under so much nervous tension after they get back to Paris?

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

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

5. What painting is almost rejected before it is discovered to be one by a famous artist?

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