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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why are Sandoz and Claude depressed after visiting Dubuche in the country?
(a) he has become a snobbish art dealer.
(b) he has been reduced to a disrespected care giver.
(c) he has gone into politics in the provinces.
(d) he has become so important that he has no time for them.

3. How is Claude when he and Sandoz return to Paris and go to a restaurant?
(a) he is withdrawn and silent during dinner.
(b) he talks about quitting painting and starting to write.
(c) he is agitated and angry at how the country has changed.
(d) he is happy and resolved to return to his large canvas.

4. What is the site that arouses Claude's enthusiasm after failing again to be included in the Salon?
(a) the Ile de la Cité.
(b) ice on the Seine.
(c) Cathedral Notre Dame.
(d) the Eiffel Tower.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens on the wedding night?

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

3. What does Sandoz point out to Claude?

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

5. When Christine suggests they go away somewhere to be happy, what is Claude's reply?

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