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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Henry brush against Walter Pach?
(a) In the cinema
(b) In the American Express office
(c) In the Tuileries
(d) In the Dome

2. If Emerson is correct in saying that life consists of what a man thinks, what is Henry at this point?
(a) No words on a blank page
(b) A wine bottle
(c) A satyr
(d) One long intestine

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

4. Why does Van Norden not want to go to the Dome?
(a) He does not like the decor.
(b) He is tired of going to the Dome.
(c) He was there only last night.
(d) He owes too much money there.

5. Sleeping on a mattress in the hall, what is Henry's troubled dream?
(a) The Mona Lisa scratching herself to get rid of bedbugs.
(b) The dancers and audience of Follies-Bergere all naked and scratching fleas.
(c) Boris, Carl, and Tania laughing at him in the Louvre.
(d) Germaine forcing him to marry her when she gets pregnant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Henry picture Serge's lazy slut of a wife?

3. What is Henry's problem as the novel opens?

4. Why does Van Norden insist that his teeth are all rotten?

5. What happens to Peckover that may benefit Henry?

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