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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many months did Zeno spend away from the office in Chapter 5?
(a) One month.
(b) Two months.
(c) Five months.
(d) Three months.

2. Why did Carla end the affair with Zeno?
(a) Zeno tried to force her to continue singing.
(b) She didn't want to hurt Zeno's wife.
(c) Zeno was harsh with her.
(d) She wanted to get married.

3. What did Zeno tell the doctor when he returned to see him the next day?
(a) He could no longer stand the smell of cigarettes.
(b) His chronic bronchitis had broken out again.
(c) He'd been unable to sleep all night.
(d) Smoking no longer harmed him.

4. How did Zeno feel about the doctor's diagnosis?
(a) Confusion and guilt.
(b) Relief.
(c) Anger and resentment.
(d) Disbelief and amusement.

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

6. What disease was Ada diagnosed with?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Morbus Basedow.
(c) Diabetes.
(d) Depression.

7. What did Carla do with the first envelope of money Zeno offered her?
(a) She took it reluctantly.
(b) She gave it to her maid.
(c) She refused it.
(d) She took it happily.

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

9. Why did Zeno tell Augusta about Carla?
(a) To gain her trust.
(b) To maintain his innocence.
(c) To trick her.
(d) To make her jealous.

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

11. How did Augusta feel about the fifth addition to the office?
(a) Jealous.
(b) Annoyed.
(c) Happy.
(d) Relieved.

12. On Zeno's third visit to see Carla, why didn't he think of Augusta?
(a) He stopped loving her.
(b) He was feeling very passionate.
(c) He was angry with Augusta.
(d) He was angry with his father-in-law.

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

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

15. Why does Zeno decide to give up on psychoanalysis?
(a) He thinks the doctor is a quack.
(b) He thinks he is cured.
(c) He thinks the treatment made him worse.
(d) He finds a new doctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprised Zeno about Augusta?

2. In Chapter 6, why did Zeno leave the doctor's office smoking like a Turk?

3. What disease did Zeno think Dr. Paoli might diagnose him with?

4. To what did the doctor attribute Zeno's problems?

5. Who was Enrico Copler?

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