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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has Henry's wife, Mona, been gone from Paris?
(a) A year
(b) Three years
(c) Several days
(d) A month

2. When Henry is writing about Claude, of whom is he really thinking?
(a) Germaine
(b) Mona
(c) Fanny
(d) Tania

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

4. Where does Henry brush against Walter Pach?
(a) In the Tuileries
(b) In the cinema
(c) In the Dome
(d) In the American Express office

5. What is the main thing worrying Henry about his writing?
(a) Never having enough light to see by
(b) Someone stealing his ideas
(c) Having a serious writer's block
(d) Not knowing where he can sit to write

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Henry describe Elsa's piano playing?

2. At the Villa Borghese, what is the Englishman doing upstairs?

3. What makes Henry feel ill when he opens the door of the commune?

4. What is Marlowe's usual trick to get out of paying a bar bill?

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

(see the answer key)

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