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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ironic switch in attitude occurs when Christine finally agrees to go in public with Claude?
(a) now he worries that they will run into her employer.
(b) now he worries that they will run into Irma.
(c) now he worries they will run into his friends.
(d) now he worries that he has no money.

2. What causes Claude and Pierre to nudge each other in front of the Herbal Shop?
(a) the thin and dark woman staring at them from the shop.
(b) the ugly sculpture of a starving child.
(c) the smell coming from the shop.
(d) their friend, Mahoudeau, coming out of the shop.

3. Where does Claude want to exhibit his painting?
(a) the Salon at the École des Beaux-Arts.
(b) the Louvre.
(c) the Luxemburg Museum.
(d) on the sidewalks of Paris.

4. What does an old man in the woods offer Claude and Christine?
(a) a place to wait till the train comes.
(b) to rent his house in the woods.
(c) some peaches grown in his orchard.
(d) to give them a ride to the train.

5. Who do Claude, Pierre, and Jory find sitting at a table making sketches with drops of beer?
(a) Malgras.
(b) Dubuche.
(c) Christine.
(d) Fagerolles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Claude react to Jory's comments about his painting?

2. Who is the friend now enrolled at the Beaux-Arts?

3. How does Claude behave around Christine?

4. What does Claude do the next morning as the young woman sleeps?

5. How does Zola describe Irma Bécot?

(see the answer key)

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