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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Henry staying as the novel opens?
(a) The Dome
(b) The YMCA
(c) Villa Broghese
(d) The Ritz Hotel

2. In what way does Henry say Carl and Boris are sufferers?
(a) They lack self-confidence.
(b) They are mad and tone deaf.
(c) They are bewitched by words.
(d) They are hungry and tired.

3. What is Henry's paranoia at Sylvester's house?
(a) He thinks they are going to ask for rent.
(b) He thinks they are trying to get rid of him.
(c) He thinks they are going to steal his book ideas.
(d) He thinks they are planning to send him back to America.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the movie playing at the Cine Combat?

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

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

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

5. What is Henry's metaphor for his artistic suffering?

(see the answer key)

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