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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what town is the most famous photo of Lenin taken?
(a) Zurich.
(b) Moscow.
(c) St. Petersburg.
(d) Bern.

2. Thinking that he is Tristan Tzara, how does Cecily characterize Henry Carr when they meet in Act 2?
(a) Decadent and nihilistic.
(b) Brilliant and radical.
(c) Dark and mysterious.
(d) Foolish and profligate.

3. What new information does Cecily reveal about Bennett in this section?
(a) He is a spy.
(b) He is a Bolshevik sympathizer.
(c) He is an amateur poet.
(d) He has fled to Serbia.

4. What two countries does Carr tell Cecily are the same in this section?
(a) Bulgaria and Romania.
(b) Albania and Montenegro.
(c) China and Mongolia.
(d) Russia and Germany.

5. What profession does Lenin's attire suggest when he enters in Act 2?
(a) A parson.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A porter.
(d) A banker.

6. What Russian writer's name is Carr unable to pronounce at the end of this section?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) Tolstoy.
(c) Dostoyevsky.
(d) Chekhov.

7. What does Lenin dislike about the staging of a Dickens tale?
(a) Its classism.
(b) Its sentimentality.
(c) Its Christian undertones.
(d) Its relentless Britishness.

8. For what purpose does Carr propose that he and Cecily go to lunch?
(a) So he can show her his Dada poetry.
(b) So he can tell her the truth about Jack.
(c) So she can reform him.
(d) So she can tell him about Lenin.

9. Which of the following is not a specific art movement that Lenin decries as incomprehensible in this section?
(a) Expressionism.
(b) Dadaism.
(c) Futurism.
(d) Cubism.

10. As an artist, to what does Joyce tell Carr he attaches no importance?
(a) Money.
(b) Love.
(c) Good taste.
(d) Politics.

11. What two countries are attempting to prevent Lenin's entry to Russia?
(a) Germany and Italy.
(b) Germany and Serbia.
(c) Britain and France.
(d) Belgium and France.

12. According to Tzara, artists and intellectuals will be what to the Russian Revolution?
(a) The voice.
(b) A thorn in the side.
(c) Priests.
(d) Conscience.

13. What is the name of the man in whose house Lenin stay in Zurich?
(a) Crousse.
(b) Schweisz.
(c) Bedetung.
(d) Kammerer.

14. In this section, what action does Tzara publicly state he will never do again?
(a) Lie to Cecily or Lenin.
(b) Return to the Library.
(c) Sculpt.
(d) Shake his brother's hand.

15. What object does Lenin accidentally strike when he slams his fist on Cecily's desk?
(a) A manuscript.
(b) A top hat.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A bell.

Short Answer Questions

1. When he finally explodes at Joyce, into what does Tzara say the writer has turned literature?

2. In mocking Tzara's Dadaist pretensions in this section, what does Carr say the communist will have Tzara pissing?

3. What is the first thing that Carr does when he meets Tzara in this section?

4. At a meeting of Russian emigres in Zurich, though what country do the Russians discuss passing to return to their homeland?

5. According to Joyce, what is the only country not to have its art well-represented in Zurich?

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