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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Henry say that no one ever dies in Paris?
(a) No one stays long enough to die.
(b) Paris never forgets imbecils.
(c) People in Paris only drink wine.
(d) You can read the names of famous people written on walls.

3. What is the movie playing at the Cine Combat?
(a) Metropolis
(b) Gone With the Wind
(c) Notorious
(d) The Jazz Singer

4. With what person does Henry compare his writing?
(a) Boris, another writer
(b) Moldorf, the dwarf
(c) Mona, his wife
(d) Napoleon

5. What is Henry's description of Marlowe?
(a) A broomstick wearing clothes
(b) Nothing but a skull perforated by two deep sockets
(c) A scarecrow in a cornfield
(d) The living epitome of Ickabod Crane

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Boris intimidated by his wife?

2. Who does Henry believe is undermining him during the last days in Villa Borghese?

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

4. When Henry is writing about Claude, of whom is he really thinking?

5. Where is Henry staying as the novel opens?

(see the answer key)

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