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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Claude and Christine visit after they find an old boat?
(a) several bridges in the area.
(b) an artist colony nearby.
(c) small islands in the river.
(d) the farms on the other side of the river.

2. Who does Claude see who pretends he has not seen Claude's painting?
(a) Irma.
(b) Dubuche.
(c) Mahoudeau.
(d) Fagerolles.

3. Why does Irma become angry with Claude during a visit to his studio?
(a) he rejects her as a lover.
(b) he rejects her as a patron.
(c) he rejects her as an art critic.
(d) he rejects her as a nude model.

4. Why does Sandoz not visit Claude and Christine in the country after August?
(a) he is about to publish his first novel.
(b) he is tired of making the trip.
(c) his mother becomes gravely ill.
(d) he is getting married.

5. Who do Claude, Pierre, and Jory find sitting at a table making sketches with drops of beer?
(a) Fagerolles.
(b) Christine.
(c) Dubuche.
(d) Malgras.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because it is Thursday, what event will take place in the evening?

2. What ironic switch in attitude occurs when Christine finally agrees to go in public with Claude?

3. Although Bongrand now only paints what interests him, why can the Beaux-Arts not overlook him?

4. As the novel opens, what is the condition of the weather?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dubuche's appearance at the Thursday night gathering indicate his ultimate destruction as an avant-guarde architect?

2. Describe how Claude further distances himself from Christine and Jacques.

3. Why is Claude told not to bring Christine to the Thursday night gatherings?

4. How is the decision made to return to Paris?

5. What is another evidence of how the Open air group is drifting apart?

6. In what way does the reader understand that Claude is first and foremost an artist?

7. Why does Christine turn to Sandoz to help pull Claude out of one of his depressions?

8. How does the behavior of Dubuche foreshadow the deterioration of the Open Air group of young Bohemian artists?

9. What is the occasion when Claude first goes to the Salon to look for his painting?

10. What is the pathos of Claude's funeral?

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