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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When they find her, where is Christine?
(a) holding Claude's head in her lap.
(b) headed for the train station.
(c) posing nude for Claude's painting.
(d) lying half dead on the floor.

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(d) he is withdrawn and silent during dinner.

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

4. What is the subject of Claude's snow scene?
(a) two children building a snowman.
(b) snow on the tops of Paris buildings.
(c) two ragged urchins eating stolen apples.
(d) a fine carriage drawn by two white horses.

5. Why do Sandoz and Claude not go into the Café Baudequin that night?
(a) the place has gone out of business.
(b) they see Ganière there with Irma.
(c) they see Ganière in there alone.
(d) they see Fagerolles and Naudet there.

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

7. 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.

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

9. Why does Mahoudeau's sculpture fall over?
(a) an earthquake shakes his studio.
(b) Claude accidentally bumps into it.
(c) Chaîne smashes it out of jealousy over Mathilde.
(d) as the room warms, the clay carving melts.

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

11. When Christine opens the door of the bedroom, what is Claude doing?
(a) he is furiously painting his vision of the Ile de la Cité.
(b) he is ripping up his large canvas.
(c) he is scraping off the paint on his large canvas.
(d) he is drinking cognac and weeping.

12. After the Salon, how does Claude behave?
(a) he puts on a façade of not caring.
(b) he happily shows himself in public.
(c) he refuses to see anyone.
(d) he throws himself back into his large painting.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Christine began to feel about her relationship with Claude?

2. Why is Sandoz being successful as a novelist?

3. What are the Salon committee's reactions to Claude's Dead Child painting?

4. What does Claude seem to taunt Christine about from gossip he has heard?

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

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