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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Having gone all day without anything to eat, what enters Henry's mind?
(a) A book he read about cheap whores on the Rue du Pasteur-Wagner
(b) His wife Mona who is working and has plenty to eat
(c) A banquet he once attended where he ate pheasant under glass
(d) All the food that restaurants throw into the garbage bins

2. What woman is Henry obsessed with?
(a) Mona Lisa
(b) Ginette
(c) Tania
(d) Claude

3. What is the movie playing at the Cine Combat?
(a) Notorious
(b) Gone With the Wind
(c) The Jazz Singer
(d) Metropolis

4. Why does Henry say that no one ever dies in Paris?
(a) Paris never forgets imbecils.
(b) No one stays long enough to die.
(c) People in Paris only drink wine.
(d) You can read the names of famous people written on walls.

5. How does Henry describe Elsa's piano playing?
(a) Like broken pots and skulls clanking
(b) Like an out of tune organ
(c) Like divine music
(d) Like wind howling through the trees

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Henry praise for putting her whole soul into her whoring?

2. What happens in Henry's head as Moldorf reads the letter from Fanny, his wife in America?

3. How does Moldorf view Sylvester?

4. What does Henry resist taking from the Cronstadt baby?

5. Who does Henry believe is undermining him during the last days in Villa Borghese?

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