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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: The Poet Masturbates, Chaps. 1-14, pp.93-114.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first time Jaromil's words save him from punishment?
(a) When he used adult vocabulary at a young age.
(b) When he began reciting the encyclopedia.
(c) When his insult was a rhyme.
(d) When he yelled in a trochee speech pattern.

2. What is Maman's attitude about her affair?
(a) She is hoping to leave her husband for the artist.
(b) She does not love the artist but sees the affair as something beautiful.
(c) She loves the artist and sees the affair as something beautiful.
(d) She does not love the artist but is afraid that if she leaves him, he will refuse to teach Jaromil.

3. Why does Maman push away her husband's hand when he wants to make love?
(a) She knows that she no longer loves him.
(b) She suspects that he was cheating.
(c) She wants him to apologize for humiliating her.
(d) She wants to punish him for humiliating her.

4. What justification does Maman give herself for her initial infidelity?
(a) Innocence.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Anger.
(d) Lust.

5. What does Jaromil think is the quintessential surrealist object?
(a) His mother's light blue perfume bottle.
(b) The telephone receiver with the dangling cord.
(c) The statue of Apollo.
(d) The chair leg if seen by itself.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jaromil treat his dates with girls?

2. Why does Xavier stay in the woman's room when her husband comes home?

3. Jaromil agonizes over his hair. What kind of hair does he have?

4. In confiding to Jaromil, what does Maman say is her greatest love?

5. Why does the artist begin loaning books to Jaromil?

(see the answer key)

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