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) Gone With the Wind
(b) The Jazz Singer
(c) Notorious
(d) Metropolis

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

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

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

5. 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) A banquet he once attended where he ate pheasant under glass
(c) His wife Mona who is working and has plenty to eat
(d) All the food that restaurants throw into the garbage bins

6. At the Villa Borghese, what is the Englishman doing upstairs?
(a) Hammering nails
(b) Playing Bach
(c) Tap dancing
(d) Cooking stew

7. What makes Henry feel ill when he opens the door of the commune?
(a) The smell of cooking with rancid butter
(b) The body odor of the Russians
(c) The stale smoke in the room
(d) The smell of disinfectants

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

9. 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 mumbles about leaving his wallet in other pants.
(c) He pretends he is going blind.
(d) He makes a quick trip to the toilet.

10. Where is Henry staying as the novel opens?
(a) The Ritz Hotel
(b) The Dome
(c) The YMCA
(d) Villa Broghese

11. What does Serge offer Henry in exchange for his services?
(a) Introductions to wealthy patrons.
(b) Fifty francs a week.
(c) One meal a day and a place to sleep.
(d) A private loft where he can write.

12. Why is Boris intimidated by his wife?
(a) She has two large brothers.
(b) She has all the money.
(c) She has many lovers.
(d) She weighs over 180 pounds.

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

14. What does the American woman inquire about that astonishes Henry?
(a) The furniture
(b) The heating system
(c) The toilet
(d) The view

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What deformity does Henry have in his fantasy at the cinema?

2. What does Henry buy with the money he takes from Peckover?

3. Where does Henry brush against Walter Pach?

4. Why does Henry say that no one ever dies in Paris?

5. When Henry is writing about Claude, of whom is he really thinking?

(see the answer keys)

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