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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Less At Last.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which anniversary are Lewis and Clark celebrating separately while Lewis is in Morocco?
(a) Their 20th.
(b) Their 12th.
(c) Their 15th.
(d) Their 27th.

2. What is the title of Arthur Less's newest book that he has just submitted to a publisher before the opening of the novel?
(a) Quick.
(b) Swift.
(c) Haste.
(d) Rapids.

3. Which country is the last one on Arthur Less's itinerary?
(a) France.
(b) China.
(c) Italy.
(d) Japan.

4. Which feature of Arthur's Kyoto hotel had the author Kawabata Yasunari named as the "heart of Kyoto" (233)?
(a) The courtyard.
(b) The kaiseki restaurant.
(c) The fountain.
(d) The garden depicted on the wall of Arthur's room.

5. The narrator describes the ride home from the tour of Mexico City as "half as charming" (61) as the ride there, due to being what?
(a) Twice as smelly.
(b) Ten times slower.
(c) Ten times hotter.
(d) Filled with twice as many people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Arthur say that he would rather go when he rejects Freddy's idea to visit Tahiti?

2. What topic is NOT on the list of questions Arthur Less is forbidden to ask the science fiction writer during the interview?

3. The narrator describes the Bedouin encampment as a what?

4. What reason is given for Arthur's lack of a watch in the novel's opening scene?

5. When Finley announces the reason that Arthur's work is not included in the gay literary canon, what does he state as the reason?

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