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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is "varnishing day"?
(a) the day they redecorate the Salon.
(b) the day before the Salon opens.
(c) the day they allow art critics to view the paintings.
(d) the day they frame the paintings.

3. How does Christine began to feel about her relationship with Claude?
(a) that she made a mistake falling in love with Claude.
(b) that she has grown tired and ugly.
(c) that she knows how to get him back.
(d) that she is playing second fiddle to a painting.

4. Why does Claude think his painting of the dead Jacques may be accepted by the Salon committee?
(a) Bongrand is now head of the committee.
(b) he submits it under an assumed name.
(c) this painting is more like the classics.
(d) Fagerolles promises to get it accepted.

5. Again under the spell of Paris, what does Claude do?
(a) stays as far away from Jacques as possible.
(b) paints night and day on his new masterpiece.
(c) talks a lot about his current work.
(d) makes sketches and plans work that never gets started.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Salon committee's reactions to Claude's Dead Child painting?

2. What tragedy strikes the Lantier household one night?

3. What idea does Sandoz have that he thinks might change things for Claude?

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

5. When he submits the snow scene to the Beaux-Arts Salon, what happens?

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