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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What woman is Henry obsessed with?
(a) Ginette
(b) Claude
(c) Tania
(d) Mona Lisa

2. For whom does Henry do some ghost writing?
(a) The owner of the Dome
(b) A german he met through Elsa
(c) A Jewish fur merchant
(d) A Russian art dealer

3. What is the trouble Carl has gotten into with his latest live-in girl?
(a) She got pregnant by Carl.
(b) She turned out to be married.
(c) She was only fifteen.
(d) She gave him the clap.

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

5. How does Henry picture Serge's lazy slut of a wife?
(a) As an emaciated American woman with no ambition.
(b) As an intelligent, hard working American woman.
(c) As a would-be writer with no talent.
(d) As a fat American lying on the sofa eating bon bons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the young Hindu do before leaving Paris?

2. What weakness appears in Henry as he plans how to use the money given to him?

3. What does Macha do immediately when she sees that two men live at Fillmore's place?

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

5. What does Van Norden use to bribe Henry into helping him?

(see the answer key)

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