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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zeno do about smoking after ending his psychoanalysis sessions?
(a) He entices his wife to take up the habit with him.
(b) He decides to cut back on smoking instead of quitting.
(c) He resumes making resolutions about smoking.
(d) He gives it up forever.

2. Who was Enrico Copler?
(a) Augusta's love interest.
(b) Zeno's rival.
(c) Zeno's accountant.
(d) Zeno's sick friend.

3. Why did Zeno leave the office for an extended time?
(a) Augusta needed him at home.
(b) He was upset because Carla left him.
(c) He couldn't get along with Guido.
(d) Olivi died.

4. What did the doctor say Zeno was lost without?
(a) A mothering influence.
(b) A woman.
(c) Conflict.
(d) A modicum of hatred.

5. How did Zeno react towards his daughter when she screamed too much?
(a) He tenderly comforted her.
(b) He cried as well.
(c) He screamed insults in her ear.
(d) He handed her to Augusta.

6. Why did the doctor say Zeno adopted smoking as his vice?
(a) To draw attention to himself.
(b) His low self-esteem.
(c) To compete with his father.
(d) To punish himself.

7. What does Zeno say he realized with horror after giving up treatment?
(a) He craved cigars.
(b) He'd stopped chasing women, except for his wife.
(c) He really did hate his father.
(d) He'd lost his focus in life.

8. What effect did Zeno think his marriage had on him at first?
(a) He felt it dampened his passions.
(b) He believed it stifled his creative energy.
(c) He believed it made his cigarette cravings more intense.
(d) He thought it put him on the road to perfect health.

9. What change did Zeno and Augusta disagree about?
(a) Adding a nursery.
(b) Adding a laundry.
(c) Keeping the study for Zeno.
(d) Adding a den.

10. In Chapter 4, what startling discovery did Zeno say he made?
(a) He was unsuited to marriage.
(b) He loved Augusta as much as she loved him.
(c) Ada secretly loved him.
(d) Alberta met a man she wanted to marry.

11. What did Zeno worry that Carla would want from him?
(a) Too much money.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Too much time.
(d) Children.

12. About how long does Zeno say he preserved his faith in Guido's undertaking?
(a) Three months.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Two years.
(d) One year.

13. In Chapter 5, how did Augusta feel after hearing that Zeno had dreamed of Ada?
(a) Angry.
(b) Secure.
(c) Happy.
(d) Jealous.

14. How did the doctor think Zeno really felt about Giovanni?
(a) He felt that Zeno was jealous of him.
(b) He thought Zeno loved Giovanni more than his father.
(c) He thought Zeno regretted being bad good son-in-law.
(d) He thought Zeno really hated him.

15. How did Zeno feel when he thought of Augusta taking a second husband?
(a) Jealous.
(b) Frightened.
(c) Amused.
(d) Relieved.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Zeno say he felt when he discovered that he did not have the disease he expected?

2. Where did Ada go to recover from her illness?

3. How did Zeno feel about the doctor's diagnosis?

4. Why did Ada visit the office unexpectedly?

5. Why did Guido pretend to commit suicide?

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