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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is ironic about Henry's getting money from Peckover?
(a) Peckover is Sylvester's cousin.
(b) He and Henry have a long standing feud.
(c) He is almost as impoverished as Henry.
(d) Peckover cannot remember where he met Henry.

2. What price is extracted from Henry for his meals at the Cronstadts?
(a) Translating letters
(b) Cleaning the toilets
(c) Carbons and babysitting
(d) Reading from his manuscript

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

4. How do the commune people get money for food?
(a) Henry writes articles for newspapers
(b) Olga makes shoes
(c) The Dutchman carves wooden shoes
(d) The Russians sell blintzes

5. In spite of his hunger, where does Henry hang out in the evenings?
(a) The Rue du Pasteur-Wagner
(b) The opera
(c) The stage door of the Folies-Bergere
(d) The Dome

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the condition of the beds in the commune?

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

3. Who asks Sylvester if he can stay with him until he goes to bed?

4. Having gone all day without anything to eat, what enters Henry's mind?

5. How does Henry slightly disagree with Papini?

(see the answer key)

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