Tropic of Cancer Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Tropic of Cancer Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the movie playing at the Cine Combat?
(a) The Jazz Singer
(b) Gone With the Wind
(c) Metropolis
(d) Notorious

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

3. What does Henry say about Napoleon?
(a) He was sabotaged by his own lusts.
(b) It was not his military genious; it was his short stature.
(c) It was not his ideas they wanted; it was his corpse.
(d) He was once what modorf is now.

4. What does Nanantatee's friend, Kelpi, do when Nanantatee is not at home?
(a) He tells Henry secrets about Nanantatee.
(b) He looks for loose change in the sofa.
(c) He raids the cabinet for food.
(d) He sits on the front steps and waits for him.

5. What does Marlowe want Henry and Carl to do during his absence?
(a) Send him money
(b) Stay away from his wife
(c) Write his reviews for the newspaper
(d) Pay his bar bills

6. How does Henry slightly disagree with Papini?
(a) Papini desires to be alone; Henry wants loneliness.
(b) Papini advises fasting; Henry advises feating.
(c) Papini flirts with religion; Henry refutes religion.
(d) Papini needs opera; Henry prefers musical comedy.

7. Where has Henry taken the young Hindu for his sexual experience?
(a) The Dome
(b) To visit Tania
(c) The Rue du Pasteru-Wagner
(d) Miss Hamilton's joint

8. 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) Germaine forcing him to marry her when she gets pregnant.
(c) The dancers and audience of Follies-Bergere all naked and scratching fleas.
(d) Boris, Carl, and Tania laughing at him in the Louvre.

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

10. What is Henry thinking about as he walks along the Champs-Elysee?
(a) His new book
(b) His good friends
(c) His superb health
(d) His empty stomach

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

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

13. What is Nanantatee's stated profession?
(a) A newspaper publisher
(b) A pearl merchant
(c) An art critic
(d) A Hindu mystic

14. Who are most of Henry's friends in Paris?
(a) Other Americans
(b) Jews
(c) Spaniards
(d) Waiters

15. How does Henry say he knows Nanantatee?
(a) They met at the Dome.
(b) They met on the ship coming from America.
(c) They met in New York.
(d) Boris introduced them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Germaine look to Henry in the clear light of day?

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

3. How does Henry sum up his idea of le bel aujourd'hui?

4. What does the young Hindu do that upsets the madame?

5. In what way does Henry say Carl and Boris are sufferers?

(see the answer keys)

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