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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens in Henry's head as Moldorf reads the letter from Fanny, his wife in America?
(a) He thinks about his own wife, Mona
(b) He gets a migraine
(c) He daydreams of flying to America
(d) One of his surrealist fantasies

2. What is Henry's problem as the novel opens?
(a) He lost his wallet.
(b) He is about to be evicted.
(c) He is seriously ill.
(d) He needs a desk or table to write on.

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

4. 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) His wife Mona who is working and has plenty to eat
(c) A book he read about cheap whores on the Rue du Pasteur-Wagner
(d) All the food that restaurants throw into the garbage bins

5. What surrounds Henry on his walk on the Rue de Buci?
(a) Police looking at him suspiciously
(b) Beggars asking for food
(c) Hotels and food
(d) Sidewalk food venders

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marlowe want Henry and Carl to do during his absence?

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

3. To torment Carl, what gossip does Marlowe whisper in his ear?

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

5. In spite of Marlowe's assurances, what do Carl and Henry know he will not do?

(see the answer key)

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