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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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 keeps changing her position while posing.
(c) that she makes too much noise in the studio.
(d) that she is no longer a good model.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is the Dead Child painting finally approved for hanging in the Salon?

3. Who lives directly across from Fagerolles's small but well appointed mansion?

4. Why is Sandoz being successful as a novelist?

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

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