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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surrounds Henry on his walk on the Rue de Buci?
(a) Hotels and food
(b) Police looking at him suspiciously
(c) Beggars asking for food
(d) Sidewalk food venders

2. What does Marlowe want Henry and Carl to do during his absence?
(a) Send him money
(b) Stay away from his wife
(c) Pay his bar bills
(d) Write his reviews for the newspaper

3. What makes Henry feel ill when he opens the door of the commune?
(a) The stale smoke in the room
(b) The smell of cooking with rancid butter
(c) The smell of disinfectants
(d) The body odor of the Russians

4. On what are Henry and Boris talking about collaborating?
(a) The Last Book
(b) The End of Innocence
(c) A History of the Left Bank
(d) The Death of the World

5. What emotion does Claude arouse in Henry?
(a) Indifference
(b) Lust
(c) Hate
(d) Pity

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To torment Carl, what gossip does Marlowe whisper in his ear?

3. In Henry's fantasy about Fanny, what is happening to her?

4. When Henry is writing about Claude, of whom is he really thinking?

5. Why does Boris not introduce Henry to the American woman who comes to see the apartment?

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