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

Multiple Choice Questions

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(b) he is withdrawn and silent during dinner.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

2. How do Claude's friends react to his latest painting?
(a) they hail it as a masterpiece.
(b) they think it is too small for a work by Claude.
(c) they look at it but do not comment.
(d) they want him to offer it to Naudet.

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

4. Again under the spell of Paris, what does Claude do?
(a) stays as far away from Jacques as possible.
(b) paints night and day on his new masterpiece.
(c) talks a lot about his current work.
(d) makes sketches and plans work that never gets started.

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

6. What does Sandoz think might be better for true artists?
(a) to keep all their works until their death.
(b) to live in Italy instead of France.
(c) to live and die an unknown.
(d) to develop a following in England.

7. Why does Sandoz stay away from Claude for a time?
(a) his novels are not selling now.
(b) he is grieving for his dead mother.
(c) he and Henriette are having problems.
(d) he is giving Claude the cold shoulder.

8. After the party at Sandoz's house, what does Christine do when Claude orders her to return home?
(a) she follows Claude to where he stands on a bridge.
(b) she follows Claude to the top of a tall building.
(c) she follows Claude to just outside the Beaux-Arts.
(d) she follows Claude to Irma's house.

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

10. What does Claude seem to taunt Christine about from gossip he has heard?
(a) that God cursed her with an unnatural child.
(b) that Mme. Vandaze died and left fortunes to her servants.
(c) that she was too stupid to find a job.
(d) that a man was coming to the studio when Claude was away.

11. What idea does Sandoz have that he thinks might change things for Claude?
(a) having another Thursday evening dinner at his house.
(b) taking Claude on a trip to Italy.
(c) throwing a surprise party for Claude and Christine.
(d) writing a novel about a painter like Claude.

12. What does Sandoz tray to talk Claude out of doing?
(a) sending any more paintings to the Salon.
(b) working too many long hours.
(c) giving no time to Jacques.
(d) placing a nude woman in his painting.

13. Why is Christine afraid when she wakes to find Claude not in the bed with her?
(a) she thinks he is destroying his paintings.
(b) she thinks he might be leaving her.
(c) she thinks he might be suicidal.
(d) she thinks he is working too hard.

14. What are the Salon committee's reactions to Claude's Dead Child painting?
(a) excited or indifferent.
(b) positive or skeptical.
(c) disgust or pity.
(d) shock or amusement.

15. When he submits the snow scene to the Beaux-Arts Salon, what happens?
(a) it is highly praised.
(b) it is disqualified because of its size.
(c) it is damaged and returned to him.
(d) it is rejected.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the Salon, how does Claude behave?

2. Why has Dubuche been exiled to his father-in-law's home in the country?

3. What is the wedding ceremony for Claude and Christine like?

4. How does Christine begin to resent Jacques?

5. What do Sandoz and Bongrand have to say about Claude's early works of art?

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