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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Claude often see himself artistically?
(a) as needing more study.
(b) as impotent.
(c) as ahead of his time.
(d) as the greatest living artist.

2. What does Bongrand say is better than being at the top?
(a) the slide down the mountain.
(b) the journey to the top.
(c) being in the middle.
(d) being at the beginning.

3. To whom does Christine turn to help get Claude out of his depression?
(a) Dubuche.
(b) Sandoz.
(c) Mahoudeau.
(d) Malgras.

4. Who is the friend now enrolled at the Beaux-Arts?
(a) Christine.
(b) Irma.
(c) Pierre.
(d) Fagerolles.

5. What was the occupation of Mahoudeau before he came to Paris?
(a) a school teacher.
(b) a grocer.
(c) a stone cutter.
(d) a blacksmith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bongrand's lament about art dealers?

2. What is it about Claude's use of colors that Christine has difficulty understanding?

3. Why does Christine resist sightseeing in Paris with Claude?

4. Where does Claude go for a cheap lunch?

5. What self imposed time limit has Claude put on finishing his painting called Open Air?

Short Essay Questions

1. How have things changed for Fagerolles?

2. How does Claude hurt Christine deeply with his complaint about her dinner?

3. Explain why Christine refuses to go sightseeing with Claude on the streets of Paris.

4. What is the scene in the the Café Baudequin that adds to the image of defeat for the open air school of thought?

5. Why is Claude told not to bring Christine to the Thursday night gatherings?

6. Describe the friendship between Claude, Sandoz, and Dubuche.

7. Why does Christine turn to Sandoz to help pull Claude out of one of his depressions?

8. How has Fagerolles become swallowed up by the commercial world of art?

9. What is it that frightens Christine about Claude?

10. How does the foreshadowed tragedy come to pass?

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