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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. What problem do Sandoz and Dubuche have with Claude's Open Air painting?
(a) the fact that the man is only seen from the back.
(b) the idea of nude women in the park.
(c) the clothed man with nude women.
(d) the drabness of the color.

2. How do the young men of the Open Air movement see themselves?
(a) as conquerors of Paris.
(b) as successful artists.
(c) as lost in a wasteland.
(d) as misunderstood prophets.

3. How has Jory stirred up the Paris art scene?
(a) by praising one of Claude's paintings.
(b) by praising the sidewalk artists.
(c) by promoting Italian art.
(d) by attacking the Studio.

4. What reawakens in Claude and Sandoz with their renewed friendship?
(a) their sense of competition.
(b) their old desire for fame.
(c) their old doubts about their work.
(d) their need for nature hikes.

5. Rejected for the Prix de Rome, what is Fagerolles now painting?
(a) postcards.
(b) slick, compromising pictures.
(c) copies of Claude's work.
(d) houses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do they return late to Paris?

2. What strange commission does Claude get from Malgras?

3. Where does Claude find Ganière after the dinner at Pierre's house?

4. What did the boys indulge themselves in during their youth?

5. Now that Sandoz is married, what role does his wife, Henriette, play in the household?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Naudet shows up at Bongrand's studio, why does he refuse to sell him his paintings?

2. How is Sandoz, the one character besides Claude who remains steadfast to the revolt against romanticism, able to remain steadfast to their revolutionary ideas?

3. How do Christine and Claude react differently to tragedy?

4. How does Claude attempt to make Christine happy once again?

5. Describe how Claude further distances himself from Christine and Jacques.

6. Describe the irony when Christine finally agrees to walk with Claude in public.

7. How does the reader understand that Claude earns a subsistence?

8. Explain how Sandoz maintains his artistic integrity with his novels.

9. What is another evidence of how the Open air group is drifting apart?

10. Describe Claude's behavior after the Salon.

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