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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who are most of Henry's friends in Paris?
(a) Other Americans
(b) Jews
(c) Spaniards
(d) Waiters

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How does Germaine look to Henry in the clear light of day?

4. On what are Henry and Boris talking about collaborating?

5. What emotion does Claude arouse in Henry?

(see the answer key)

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