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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Boris not introduce Henry to the American woman who comes to see the apartment?
(a) Because she is beautiful
(b) Because Henry needs a bath
(c) Because he fears Henry will say the wrong thing
(d) Because he hates Henry

2. What happens in the place where Macha is known and has her hand kissed repeatedly?
(a) Macha goes to make a phone call and never returns.
(b) Macha gets drunk and agrees to go to bed with Fillmore.
(c) Macha confesses that she is not a real princess.
(d) Macha refuses to leave with Fillmore.

3. How does Henry make a little extra money while he is at Fillmore's place?
(a) He sells some of the pornographic pictures he posed for.
(b) He pawns things Fillmore would probably not miss.
(c) Occasionally Carl comes by with a writing assignment he does not want to do himself.
(d) He does more nude modeling for Swift.

4. What weakness appears in Henry as he plans how to use the money given to him?
(a) He buys expensive liquour and invites Fillmore over.
(b) He cannot pass up the French pastries at the bakery.
(c) He buys new clothes and goes to the opera.
(d) He finds a budget place to live but shells out money to women.

5. What deformity does Henry have in his fantasy at the cinema?
(a) He is short like Moldorf.
(b) He has a crippled right hand.
(c) He has a glass eye.
(d) He has a club foot.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Henry make the decision to go to the blonde woman's apartment?

2. For whom does Henry do some ghost writing?

3. What does Henry buy with the money he takes from Peckover?

4. What was Carl's problem with Irene?

5. Where is Henry staying as the novel opens?

(see the answer key)

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