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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Having gone all day without anything to eat, what enters Henry's mind?
(a) A banquet he once attended where he ate pheasant under glass
(b) All the food that restaurants throw into the garbage bins
(c) His wife Mona who is working and has plenty to eat
(d) A book he read about cheap whores on the Rue du Pasteur-Wagner

2. At the Villa Borghese, what is the Englishman doing upstairs?
(a) Playing Bach
(b) Tap dancing
(c) Cooking stew
(d) Hammering nails

3. What woman is Henry obsessed with?
(a) Tania
(b) Claude
(c) Ginette
(d) Mona Lisa

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

5. Who does Henry believe is undermining him during the last days in Villa Borghese?
(a) Fanny, Moldorf's wife
(b) Mona, his wife
(c) Elsa, the maid
(d) Tania, Sylverster's wife

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Henry praise for putting her whole soul into her whoring?

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

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

4. What does the American woman inquire about that astonishes Henry?

5. Why is Boris intimidated by his wife?

(see the answer key)

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