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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who are most of Henry's friends in Paris?
(a) Spaniards
(b) Waiters
(c) Jews
(d) Other Americans
2. What emotion does Claude arouse in Henry?
(a) Lust
(b) Indifference
(c) Pity
(d) Hate
3. What is the condition of the beds in the commune?
(a) They are used by three or four people at once.
(b) They are straw mats on a hard floor.
(c) They are crawling with bedbugs.
(d) They have no blankets against the cold nights.
4. What is Henry's perception of Mr. Wren, the American artist and writer?
(a) He has everything because he has a rich wife.
(b) He is a better writer than Henry.
(c) He makes no sense when he talks.
(d) He is someone Henry wants to know better.
5. How much money does Henry get from Peckover?
(a) Ten francs
(b) Fifty francs
(c) One franc-fifty
(d) Fifty centimes
6. How does Henry picture Serge's lazy slut of a wife?
(a) As a would-be writer with no talent.
(b) As an intelligent, hard working American woman.
(c) As a fat American lying on the sofa eating bon bons.
(d) As an emaciated American woman with no ambition.
7. Why is Boris intimidated by his wife?
(a) She weighs over 180 pounds.
(b) She has all the money.
(c) She has two large brothers.
(d) She has many lovers.
8. Where are the people from who are coming to view the Villa Borghese apartment?
(a) Spain
(b) Dijon
(c) London
(d) America
9. What is Henry's paranoia at Sylvester's house?
(a) He thinks they are going to ask for rent.
(b) He thinks they are trying to get rid of him.
(c) He thinks they are going to steal his book ideas.
(d) He thinks they are planning to send him back to America.
10. What author does Henry discover that cheers him?
(a) Goethe
(b) Immanuel Kant
(c) Benedetto Croce
(d) Papini
11. Who does Henry believe is undermining him during the last days in Villa Borghese?
(a) Elsa, the maid
(b) Tania, Sylverster's wife
(c) Fanny, Moldorf's wife
(d) Mona, his wife
12. What is Henry thinking about as he walks along the Champs-Elysee?
(a) His superb health
(b) His good friends
(c) His empty stomach
(d) His new book
13. What does the American woman inquire about that astonishes Henry?
(a) The furniture
(b) The heating system
(c) The toilet
(d) The view
14. What does Henry say about Napoleon?
(a) It was not his military genious; it was his short stature.
(b) It was not his ideas they wanted; it was his corpse.
(c) He was once what modorf is now.
(d) He was sabotaged by his own lusts.
15. What lucky find does Henry make in the cafe?
(a) A ticket to a concert
(b) A book by Papini
(c) A woman who loves to support artists
(d) A wallet filled with francs
Short Answer Questions
1. What is ironic about Henry's getting money from Peckover?
2. What deformity does Henry have in his fantasy at the cinema?
3. What surrounds Henry on his walk on the Rue de Buci?
4. What is Henry's metaphor for his artistic suffering?
5. How do the commune people get money for food?
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