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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the people from who are coming to view the Villa Borghese apartment?
(a) America
(b) Dijon
(c) London
(d) Spain

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

3. Why is Henry always looking for a free meal?
(a) He wants people to feel sorry for him.
(b) He is perpetually hungry.
(c) He is too miserly to buy for himself.
(d) He is trying to cut down on his expenses.

4. How does Henry describe Elsa's piano playing?
(a) Like divine music
(b) Like broken pots and skulls clanking
(c) Like an out of tune organ
(d) Like wind howling through the trees

5. What is Henry's metaphor for his artistic suffering?
(a) Being enslaved
(b) Digging graves
(c) Lying down with lions
(d) Walking on hot coals

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Henry staying as the novel opens?

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

4. Having gone all day without anything to eat, what enters Henry's mind?

5. How are Boris and Henry planning to write THE LAST BOOK?

(see the answer key)

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