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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the wedding ceremony for Claude and Christine like?
(a) rushed and without emotion.
(b) quick and exciting.
(c) elaborate and joyful.
(d) plain but meaningful.

2. Who generally shows up on varnishing day?
(a) the riff-raff of Paris.
(b) the artists whose works are included.
(c) the elite of Paris society.
(d) only the Paris art critics.

3. What is the irony of Sandoz's new house?
(a) it is in the same area as Irma's and Fagerolles's houses.
(b) it has become a shrine to his late mother.
(c) it is large and ostentacious.
(d) it is an eclectic and old fashioned abode for a very modern writer.

4. What is Claude's mistaken idea about Chaîne?
(a) that he is proud of his work.
(b) that he is happy.
(c) that he has not changed.
(d) that he is rich.

5. What painting is almost rejected before it is discovered to be one by a famous artist?
(a) a painting of a nude lady under a tree.
(b) a painting of a nude man and a clothed woman.
(c) a painting of people having a picnic outdoors.
(d) a painting of blue poplars.

6. Why does Claude at first not find his painting of the Dead Child?
(a) it is hung near the exit in dim light.
(b) it is hung very high over large canvases.
(c) it is hung in a hallway.
(d) it is hung in a small room where almost no one goes.

7. How is Claude when he and Sandoz return to Paris and go to a restaurant?
(a) he is happy and resolved to return to his large canvas.
(b) he talks about quitting painting and starting to write.
(c) he is agitated and angry at how the country has changed.
(d) he is withdrawn and silent during dinner.

8. What distresses Christine when Claude returns home from the Salon?
(a) his refusal to take her to the Salon.
(b) his unusually happy manner.
(c) his attempt to destroy his large unfinished canvas.
(d) his strange and cold manner.

9. Why is Christine under so much nervous tension after they get back to Paris?
(a) the studio is small and Jacques is often in the way.
(b) she thinks she might be pregnant again.
(c) too many people come to visit.
(d) Claude seldom comes home.

10. What does Sandoz point out to Claude?
(a) the many paintings using his open air style.
(b) that the Dead Child is the only original thing hanging.
(c) that the critics are all looking at his painting.
(d) that no one is laughing at him now.

11. How does Ganière drift away from the group of former art revolutionaries?
(a) by practicing the piano many hours a day.
(b) by spending all his time at concerts.
(c) by returning to the classics.
(d) by marrying his old maid music teacher.

12. When Sandoz comes to take Claude away from the studio, who do they find as a barker at a carnival?
(a) Dubuche.
(b) Ganière
(c) Mahoudeau.
(d) Chaîne.

13. What purchases does Claude make to get started with his painting?
(a) new paints and brushes.
(b) large paper and new pencils to make his sketches.
(c) new lights and a heater for the studio.
(d) a large frame and seamless canvas.

14. Which friends of Claude's show up at the funeral?
(a) fifty relatives from Plassans.
(b) no one.
(c) all his old friends.
(d) only Sandoz and Bongrand.

15. What tragedy strikes the Lantier household one night?
(a) Christine has a miscarriage.
(b) the studio catches on fire.
(c) Jacques dies alone in his bed.
(d) Claude falls from his scaffolding.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Sandoz stay away from Claude for a time?

2. For a while, how does Claude make a fairly good living?

3. How does Christine confront Claude about the nude woman in his painting?

4. What does Claude blame Christine for when his painting does not come out the way he wants?

5. When Christine suggests they go away somewhere to be happy, what is Claude's reply?

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