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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mona never understand about Henry?
(a) His philandering ways
(b) His gutter vocabulary
(c) His attraction for Paris
(d) His need to write

2. What does Henry have to tone down on his new job?
(a) His style of dressing
(b) His looking for free meals
(c) His vocabulary
(d) His singing

3. Normally a slob, how does Nanantatee change after Henry moves in?
(a) He starts picking up after himself.
(b) He hires a maid.
(c) He moves them into a fancy hotel.
(d) He becomes excessively clean.

4. Why is Boris intimidated by his wife?
(a) She weighs over 180 pounds.
(b) She has many lovers.
(c) She has all the money.
(d) She has two large brothers.

5. What is Henry's derogatory name for the Indian, Nanantatee?
(a) Mr. Manatee
(b) Mr. Not a Tree
(c) Mr. Na-na-tatee
(d) Mr. Nonentity

Short Answer Questions

1. What deformity does Henry have in his fantasy at the cinema?

2. In spite of Marlowe's assurances, what do Carl and Henry know he will not do?

3. What has Van Norden lost at the Bal Negre?

4. What does Henry imagine is the value of the ring he tries to pawn?

5. Why does Henry say that no one ever dies in Paris?

(see the answer key)

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