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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Claude seem to taunt Christine about from gossip he has heard?
(a) that God cursed her with an unnatural child.
(b) that Mme. Vandaze died and left fortunes to her servants.
(c) that a man was coming to the studio when Claude was away.
(d) that she was too stupid to find a job.

2. When Christine opens the door of the bedroom, what is Claude doing?
(a) he is ripping up his large canvas.
(b) he is drinking cognac and weeping.
(c) he is scraping off the paint on his large canvas.
(d) he is furiously painting his vision of the Ile de la Cité.

3. Which friends of Claude's show up at the funeral?
(a) no one.
(b) all his old friends.
(c) only Sandoz and Bongrand.
(d) fifty relatives from Plassans.

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

5. 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 will go up in value.
(c) they agree that they led him in the wrong direction.
(d) they agree they were extraordinary pieces.

Short Answer Questions

1. Again under the spell of Paris, what does Claude do?

2. Why does Claude think his painting of the dead Jacques may be accepted by the Salon committee?

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

4. Why does Mahoudeau's sculpture fall over?

5. What distresses Christine when Claude returns home from the Salon?

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