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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the boys indulge themselves in during their youth?
(a) planning how to run away from their village.
(b) playing pranks on the girls in their school.
(c) discussing philosophy with their teacher.
(d) long nature hikes and swimming naked in the river.

2. What problem do Sandoz and Dubuche have with Claude's Open Air painting?
(a) the fact that the man is only seen from the back.
(b) the idea of nude women in the park.
(c) the drabness of the color.
(d) the clothed man with nude women.

3. What is Pierre Sandoz's vocation?
(a) he is a writer aspiring to sell his first novel.
(b) he is a musician composing new music.
(c) he is a sculptor doing garden gnomes.
(d) he is a mathematician who loves art.

4. Why were girls not allowed in their group of friends back in the village?
(a) because of their shyness.
(b) because of their dislike of girls.
(c) because they slept on the ground overnight.
(d) because they were in an all boys school.

5. While Pierre and Dubuche are in the studio, what does Claude almost do?
(a) throw them out.
(b) declare his painting finished.
(c) destroy his painting.
(d) commit suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the late comers for Sandoz's Thursday soiree?

2. How does Zola paint Claude Lantier's angst?

3. What was the occupation of Mahoudeau before he came to Paris?

4. Who visits Claude while Christine is hiding behind the screen?

5. Who is Mathilde Jabouille?

(see the answer key)

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