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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What breaks the solemn reverie of Sandoz and Bongrand at the cemetery?
2. When Sandoz comes to take Claude away from the studio, who do they find as a barker at a carnival?
3. How is the Dead Child painting finally approved for hanging in the Salon?
4. What is it that Claude does not know while he waits to see if the Dead Child will be included in the Salon?
5. Why does Mahoudeau's sculpture fall over?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay of at least two typed, double-spaced pages on the topic of Claude as Pygmalion. The points in the essay should incorporate the objective way Claude looks at Christine as his nude model and the passion with which he tries to bring the woman in the painting to life. It should point out how Christine seems to fade away as the woman in the painting becomes Claude's passion. His Pygmalion attempts at creating this perfect woman cause even his friends to say that she should come alive so he could make love to her. Express how his obsession begins to make you feel as a reader.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay of at least two typed, double-spaced pages on the topic of Art and Art Dealers. The essay topics should include (1) Naudet who could tell which artists could make him money but had no idea about which artist could become a great painter; (2) Bongrand's accusation that art had been reduced to francs, and (3) Malgras who recognized good art but resorted to cheating the artists.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay of at least two typed, double-spaced pages on the topic of art in the grotesque. Discuss how the painting of the Dead Child is, in fact, a serious work of art. How does this address the idea that the purpose of art is not limited to being pretty. How should a person look at a work like the Dead Child? Why would Claude, the artist, not understand how such a painting could be ignored and dismissed?
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