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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Serge happy to meet Henry?
(a) He wants to meet Germaine.
(b) He wants an English teacher.
(c) He needs a guide around Paris.
(d) He has read Henry's articles.

2. Having gone all day without anything to eat, what enters Henry's mind?
(a) A book he read about cheap whores on the Rue du Pasteur-Wagner
(b) His wife Mona who is working and has plenty to eat
(c) All the food that restaurants throw into the garbage bins
(d) A banquet he once attended where he ate pheasant under glass

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

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

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

6. About what does Serge want to learn?
(a) Fishing
(b) Worms
(c) Import-export
(d) California wines

7. What is Marlowe's usual trick to get out of paying a bar bill?
(a) He pretends he doesn't see the bill.
(b) He makes a quick trip to the toilet.
(c) He mumbles about leaving his wallet in other pants.
(d) He pretends he is going blind.

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

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

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

11. What happens in Henry's head as Moldorf reads the letter from Fanny, his wife in America?
(a) He gets a migraine
(b) He daydreams of flying to America
(c) One of his surrealist fantasies
(d) He thinks about his own wife, Mona

12. Who helps get Henry out of Nanantatee's apartment much of the time?
(a) Germaine
(b) Kelpi
(c) Sylvester and Tania
(d) A young Hindu lecturer from India

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

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

15. How does Germaine look to Henry in the clear light of day?
(a) She is overdressed in fine silks.
(b) She is overweight and has yellow complexion.
(c) She always hides her face behind a fan.
(d) She has gold teeth and a geranium in her hat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the people from who are coming to view the Villa Borghese apartment?

2. What is Henry's metaphor for his artistic suffering?

3. What is ironic about Henry's getting money from Peckover?

4. What is Henry thinking about as he walks along the Champs-Elysee?

5. What emotion does Claude arouse in Henry?

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