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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Henry think about when he listens to Debussy?
(a) He wonders how a woman feels during sex.
(b) He thinks about his next meal.
(c) He thinks about where he can find a place to stay.
(d) He thinks about bedbugs and fleas.

2. What does Mona never understand about Henry?
(a) His attraction for Paris
(b) His gutter vocabulary
(c) His need to write
(d) His philandering ways

3. What does Van Norden use to bribe Henry into helping him?
(a) A place to write
(b) A few hundred francs
(c) The promise of a meal now and then
(d) His black book of names of girls who have sex for free

4. How does Henry make a little extra money while he is at Fillmore's place?
(a) He does more nude modeling for Swift.
(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 sells some of the pornographic pictures he posed for.

5. Who does Henry praise for putting her whole soul into her whoring?
(a) Claude
(b) Fanny
(c) Tania
(d) Germaine

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Fillmore so taken with Macha?

2. What makes Henry feel ill when he opens the door of the commune?

3. What is Marlowe's usual trick to get out of paying a bar bill?

4. What is Nanantatee's stated profession?

5. Where does Henry brush against Walter Pach?

(see the answer key)

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