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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What price is extracted from Henry for his meals at the Cronstadts?
(a) Carbons and babysitting
(b) Translating letters
(c) Reading from his manuscript
(d) Cleaning the toilets

2. How does Kelpi make his living?
(a) Picking tourists' pockets.
(b) Delivering messages.
(c) Collecting bottles for recycling.
(d) Guiding tourists to places where he gets a commission.

3. Why can Henry not go to the cinema or into the opium joint?
(a) He is short a few sous.
(b) He has been banned from both places.
(c) He can't afford to be seen there.
(d) He needs to save the money to buy breakfast.

4. How are Boris and Henry planning to write THE LAST BOOK?
(a) Anonymously
(b) Each one writing every other chapter
(c) Dictating to a secretary
(d) In French and German

5. Who comprises the communal life with Henry?
(a) Some dwarfs from the Cirque Medrano
(b) Several young expatriate American students
(c) Some crazy Russians, a Dutchman, and a Bulgarian woman nemed Olge
(d) A dormitory of university students

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry say about Napoleon?

2. What happens in Henry's head as Moldorf reads the letter from Fanny, his wife in America?

3. What is Henry's paranoia at Sylvester's house?

4. What does Henry have to tone down on his new job?

5. What does the young Hindu do before leaving Paris?

(see the answer key)

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