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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Van Norden lost at the Bal Negre?
(a) His false teeth
(b) His gold pen
(c) His wallet
(d) His toupee

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

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

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

5. In spite of Marlowe's assurances, what do Carl and Henry know he will not do?
(a) Write them them every day
(b) Recommend them for jobs
(c) Pay them when he returns
(d) Bring them souvenirs from America

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Marlowe about to go?

2. How does Henry say Moldorf hears his own voice?

3. What surrounds Henry on his walk on the Rue de Buci?

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

5. What does Carl say makes him want to go to Arizona?

(see the answer key)

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