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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the condition of the clothes the young artists wear?
(a) stuffily overdone.
(b) purely rustic country style clothing.
(c) formal attire even in the daytime.
(d) down at the heel boots and threadbare jackets.

2. Who now has a mansion near Claude's and Christine's cottage?
(a) Irma Bécot.
(b) Bongrand.
(c) the Margaillan family.
(d) Pierre Sandoz.

3. Who are the late comers for Sandoz's Thursday soiree?
(a) Ganière and Dubuche.
(b) Malgras and Hugo.
(c) Mahoudeau and Chaîne.
(d) Irma and Christine.

4. What makes Claude and Sandoz become exasperated with stupidity of the crowd?
(a) people eating in the Salon.
(b) the sound of laughter.
(c) the pushing and shoving.
(d) their apparent lack of taste.

5. How does love win out over practicality?
(a) Christine murders Mme. Vandaze.
(b) Christine never returns to Passy.
(c) Christine gets MMe. Vandaze to move to Paris.
(d) Christine resigns her position and moves in with Claude.

Short Answer Questions

1. How has Claude's past prepared him for living in the country?

2. Who is the journalist who drops in while Pierre and Claude are visiting Mahoudeau and Chaîne?

3. How does Zola describe Irma Bécot?

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

5. What style of art is preferred by the École des Beaux-Arts?

(see the answer key)

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