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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city does Arthur Less currently live?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Scranton.
(c) Palm Springs.
(d) San Francisco.

2. What news does Arthur receive from Marian during his stay in Kyoto?
(a) Robert has had a stroke.
(b) Robert has divorced her.
(c) Robert has died.
(d) Marian has remarried.

3. What emotion does Arthur feel when he sees that the retreat manager's car has a television in its dashboard?
(a) Despair.
(b) Alarm.
(c) Wonder.
(d) Awe.

4. What crucial question did Arthur realize he had never asked Robert during their trip to Mexico?
(a) What are your intentions?
(b) Why me?
(c) Where is your wife?
(d) Do you love me?

5. Arthur's life with Robert ends at about the same time that Arthur finishes reading the complete works of which author?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Proust.
(c) Milton.
(d) Dostoyevsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the theme of the party at which Freddy and Arthur meet for the first time?

2. 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?

3. What is NOT on the list of past transgressions listed by Arthur among his worst?

4. The narrator describes which character as "the kind of woman who would run an international spy ring" (168)?

5. What is the name of the local writer who acts as Arthur's escort during his time in Mexico?

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