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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Less German and Less French.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Filled with twice as many people.
(c) Ten times slower.
(d) Ten times hotter.

2. Arthur is described by the narrator as someone who can "sometimes touch another and send the spark of his own" what "into theirs"? (114)
(a) Life force.
(b) Electric spark.
(c) Nervous system.
(d) Electric charge.

3. When Arthur receives a wedding invitation from Freddy a few months after they stop seeing one another, to whom is Freddy engaged?
(a) Thomas Dennis.
(b) Dennis Thomas.
(c) Thomas Mars.
(d) Dennis Raglan.

4. When Freddy and Arthur are sitting in the bar and are describing one another using one sentence, Freddy describes Arthur using what adjective?
(a) Angry.
(b) Passive-aggressive.
(c) Brave.
(d) Scared.

5. Though the narrator says that all Arthur Less has "managed to grow is a gentle sense of himself, akin to the transparent carapace of a soft-shelled crab" (6), what event is stated to still have the ability to hurt him?
(a) A mediocre review.
(b) Heartbreak.
(c) A rejection by a publisher.
(d) A careless slight.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what day of the Mexican festival is Arthur scheduled to speak?

2. Biologically, how is Freddy related to Carlos?

3. For how long was Arthur romantically involved with the professor, Howard?

4. Arthur begins his first lecture in Germany by quoting which author?

5. How often does Bastian visit Arthur during Arthur's stint teaching in Germany?

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