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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it about Claude's use of colors that Christine has difficulty understanding?
(a) red bananas and yellow apples.
(b) yellow skies and pink clouds.
(c) blue in the poplar trees and mauve in the ground.
(d) people with purple skin.

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

3. Returning to Paris, what does Christine want to do?
(a) find a priest and get married.
(b) resign her position and stay with Claude.
(c) get Claude to paint fans for tourists.
(d) break off her relationship with Claude.

4. After renewing his association with Sandoz, what is Claude incessantly talking about?
(a) people in Paris Christine has never known.
(b) the École des Beaux-Arts.
(c) how Mahoudeau and Chaîne killed off Jabouille.
(d) going to study in Italy.

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

6. How does Claude think Irma has changed?
(a) from an innocent girl into a weathered hag.
(b) from a possible model into a fat disaster.
(c) from a trollop into a lady.
(d) from a common guttersnipe into a "courtesan by Titian."

7. Although Bongrand now only paints what interests him, why can the Beaux-Arts not overlook him?
(a) because of his great popularity.
(b) because of his reputation for vengeance.
(c) because of his earlier masterpiece.
(d) because of his great contributions of money.

8. What is the subject of Fagerolles's latest painting?
(a) a clown on a highwire.
(b) a clothed man and a nude woman.
(c) an actress looking in the mirror.
(d) blue poplars and mauve ground.

9. When is the laughter the loudest?
(a) when they reach Claude's picture.
(b) when they reach Marhoudeau's sculpture.
(c) when they reach Dubuche's architectural drawing.
(d) when they reach Bongrand's picture.

10. Ready to leave, what does the young woman do?
(a) she offers to cook breakfast.
(b) she attempts to clean up the studio.
(c) she asks Claude for money.
(d) she begs Claude to escort her to the train station.

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

12. Where do Claude and Christine go on a short trip?
(a) to the countryside in Claude's home town.
(b) to the countryside and visit an inn called Bennecourt.
(c) to Versailles.
(d) to the south of France near the sea.

13. Who does Jory insist that Claude go with him to see?
(a) Irma Bécot.
(b) Mathilde.
(c) Bongrand.
(d) Ganière.

14. What does the lusty Jory like about Mahoudeau's sculpture of the Grape Picker?
(a) her feet and hands.
(b) the amount of clay used in the mold.
(c) the life-like look of her face.
(d) her ample bosom and thick thighs.

15. Why does Christine pack up everything to return to Paris?
(a) to get herself a job to support Claude.
(b) to save Claude and save her marriage.
(c) to put Jacques in a good school.
(d) to live in a warm apartment during the winter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Claude and Pierre to nudge each other in front of the Herbal Shop?

2. Why does Sandoz not visit Claude and Christine in the country after August?

3. What does she notice about Claude's Open Air painting?

4. How does the young woman want to sleep?

5. When was the beginnings of the Bohemian lifestyle of Claude and Pierre?

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