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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the story the blonde woman tells Henry through her tears?
(a) She says she is being blackmailed.
(b) She says she is about to be evicted from her rooms.
(c) She says her daughter is in the hsopital.
(d) She says she has recently buried her child.

2. How does the reader know how angry the priest is?
(a) He chases Henry and Fillmore outside, shaking his fist.
(b) The veins pop out on his temples.
(c) He is jumping up and down just outside the door.
(d) He shouts surses at Henry and Fillmore.

3. Why does Henry enjoy the company of the photographer?
(a) Because he always has money
(b) Because he enjoys posing for him
(c) Because of his thorough knowledge of Paris
(d) Because he is less intelligent than Henry

4. What does Mona never understand about Henry?
(a) His attraction for Paris
(b) His gutter vocabulary
(c) His philandering ways
(d) His need to write

5. What does Henry do for a photographer?
(a) He finds whores for him to photograph.
(b) He poses for pornographic pictures for a German collector.
(c) He writes captions for his photographs.
(d) He learns to work in his darkroom.

6. What does Henry do after Fillmore leaves for work in the mornings?
(a) He sits at the table and stares at a blank page.
(b) He puts out pages of an old book he wrote years ago
(c) He goes for a stroll
(d) He goes back to sleep, sometimes not getting up before noon.

7. At the blonde woman's apartment, what feeling does Henry have when she goes to see her sick mother?
(a) He thinks the woman is holding out for more money.
(b) He decides to leave and never come back.
(c) He feels that he is in some kind of drama that will be in the morning papers.
(d) He fears that some kind of scam is being pulled on him.

8. What does Henry say he knows about in the same way he knows about slaughterhouses and morgues?
(a) The Catholic mass
(b) Women
(c) Writing
(d) How to form lasting friendships

9. What are the physical ailments of the people in Fillmore's apartment?
(a) Fillmore has bronchitis, Macha has the clap, and Henry has piles.
(b) They all come down with influenza.
(c) Macha falls and breaks her arm, Fillmore cartches cold, and Henry has the measles.
(d) Macha give the clap to both Fillmore and Henry.

10. Who does Henry think is the one lone literary figure America has produced?
(a) Longfellow
(b) Whitman
(c) Hawthorne
(d) Poe

11. What is it in Irene's expensive hotel that makes Henry think about Van Norden?
(a) All the rich Englishwomen there
(b) Seeing a prostitute he had once pointed out ot Henry
(c) The revolving door
(d) A young virgin coming in as he is going out

12. What are they looking for in the church when the priest stops them?
(a) The exit
(b) The statue of the Virgin
(c) The candles
(d) The collection box

13. How much does Henry plan to spend on the blonde woman?
(a) He plans to get her to bed him for free.
(b) He plans to offer to let her move in with him.
(c) He plans to spend over a hundred francs.
(d) He plans to spend only fifty francs.

14. How is Henry surprised by the blonde woman's action in bed?
(a) He cannot believe how accomplished she is.
(b) He is startled when she reaches up and turns out the lights.
(c) He fears that she is going to substitute her mother in the bed.
(d) He is amazed that she refuses to remove her kimono.

15. What does Henry suggest is the task of the artist?
(a) To make bloated pages and erase petty intrusions
(b) To create something of his own out of the chaos around him
(c) To give the public what it wants
(d) To present only the beauty of the world

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens in the place where Macha is known and has her hand kissed repeatedly?

2. What is the best thing Henry notes about Kruger, the painter and sculptor?

3. What finally gets the Russian princess out of Fillmore's apartment?

4. Why had Henry gone in to see a Rabbi?

5. Why does Van Norden not want to go to the Dome?

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