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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) wishing he would go away.
(d) blaming him for the loss of her virgin body.

2. Why does Mahoudeau's sculpture fall over?
(a) Claude accidentally bumps into it.
(b) an earthquake shakes his studio.
(c) Chaîne smashes it out of jealousy over Mathilde.
(d) as the room warms, the clay carving melts.

3. What breaks the solemn reverie of Sandoz and Bongrand at the cemetery?
(a) a sudden rainstorm.
(b) the sound of a passing train.
(c) the lamenting of a funeral nearby.
(d) a parade passing by.

4. 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 furiously painting his vision of the Ile de la Cité.
(d) he is scraping off the paint on his large canvas.

5. How does Irma Bécot get her revenge on Claude?
(a) by seducing him in her new mansion.
(b) by spreading gossip about him.
(c) by seducing Christine.
(d) by buying his painting and burning it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that Claude does not know while he waits to see if the Dead Child will be included in the Salon?

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

3. Why are Sandoz and Claude depressed after visiting Dubuche in the country?

4. What is the irony of Sandoz's new house?

5. What do Sandoz and Bongrand have to say about Claude's early works of art?

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