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 does Henry resist taking from the Cronstadt baby?
(a) A glass of milk
(b) A pacifier
(c) A chicken bone
(d) A Teddy bear

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

3. What has Van Norden lost at the Bal Negre?
(a) His false teeth
(b) His wallet
(c) His toupee
(d) His gold pen

4. In what way does Henry say Carl and Boris are sufferers?
(a) They are hungry and tired.
(b) They are bewitched by words.
(c) They lack self-confidence.
(d) They are mad and tone deaf.

5. When Henry is writing about Claude, of whom is he really thinking?
(a) Mona
(b) Tania
(c) Germaine
(d) Fanny

6. How does Henry describe Elsa's piano playing?
(a) Like wind howling through the trees
(b) Like divine music
(c) Like an out of tune organ
(d) Like broken pots and skulls clanking

7. What lucky find does Henry make in the cafe?
(a) A woman who loves to support artists
(b) A book by Papini
(c) A ticket to a concert
(d) A wallet filled with francs

8. What is Henry's metaphor for his artistic suffering?
(a) Walking on hot coals
(b) Digging graves
(c) Being enslaved
(d) Lying down with lions

9. Why can Henry not go to the cinema or into the opium joint?
(a) He can't afford to be seen there.
(b) He needs to save the money to buy breakfast.
(c) He is short a few sous.
(d) He has been banned from both places.

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

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

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

13. To torment Carl, what gossip does Marlowe whisper in his ear?
(a) You're going to lose your job.
(b) The police are looking for you.
(c) Your favorite girl has the clap.
(d) Your apartment building is about to be condemned.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does Henry get from Peckover?

2. Why does Boris not introduce Henry to the American woman who comes to see the apartment?

3. In spite of Marlowe's assurances, what do Carl and Henry know he will not do?

4. Where has Henry taken the young Hindu for his sexual experience?

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

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