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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the ugly family walking along with Dubuche?

2. Why does Claude start going out alone to paint leaving Christine in the cottage?

3. What ironic switch in attitude occurs when Christine finally agrees to go in public with Claude?

4. Why does Christine pack up everything to return to Paris?

5. Besides Jory, who else is vying for the attention of Mathilde?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Claude begins to change his attitude toward living in the country.

2. After returning to Paris, what indicates that Claude is taking Christine for granted and no longer has a romantic love for her?

3. How does the reader know that Christine has been thinking of Claude since the night she spent in his studio?

4. How does Dubuche's appearance at the Thursday night gathering indicate his ultimate destruction as an avant-guarde architect?

5. Describe Claude's behavior after the Salon.

6. When Claude finally locates his painting, how does he once again feel rejected?

7. Explain why Christine refuses to go sightseeing with Claude on the streets of Paris.

8. What is the occasion when Claude first goes to the Salon to look for his painting?

9. How does the behavior of Dubuche foreshadow the deterioration of the Open Air group of young Bohemian artists?

10. How has Fagerolles become swallowed up by the commercial world of art?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay of at least two typed, double-spaced pages on the topic of art in the grotesque. Discuss how the painting of the Dead Child is, in fact, a serious work of art. How does this address the idea that the purpose of art is not limited to being pretty. How should a person look at a work like the Dead Child? Why would Claude, the artist, not understand how such a painting could be ignored and dismissed?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay of at least two typed, double-spaced pages on the topic of Getting to the Top. Using Bongrand as an authority, the essay should center on his statement that the "greatest satisfaction was not being at the top, but in getting there." The essay may also include more modern examples of more modern celebrities who rose to the top of their fields only to end up in obscurity.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay of at least two typed, double-spaced pages on the topic of Art and Art Dealers. The essay topics should include (1) Naudet who could tell which artists could make him money but had no idea about which artist could become a great painter; (2) Bongrand's accusation that art had been reduced to francs, and (3) Malgras who recognized good art but resorted to cheating the artists.

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