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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Henry do for a photographer?
(a) He writes captions for his photographs.
(b) He learns to work in his darkroom.
(c) He finds whores for him to photograph.
(d) He poses for pornographic pictures for a German collector.

2. What does Van Norden call everyone?
(a) Joe
(b) Prick
(c) George
(d) Scumbag

3. What weakness appears in Henry as he plans how to use the money given to him?
(a) He finds a budget place to live but shells out money to women.
(b) He buys expensive liquour and invites Fillmore over.
(c) He cannot pass up the French pastries at the bakery.
(d) He buys new clothes and goes to the opera.

4. At the blonde woman's apartment, what feeling does Henry have when she goes to see her sick mother?
(a) He feels that he is in some kind of drama that will be in the morning papers.
(b) He fears that some kind of scam is being pulled on him.
(c) He decides to leave and never come back.
(d) He thinks the woman is holding out for more money.

5. What does Mona never understand about Henry?
(a) His philandering ways
(b) His attraction for Paris
(c) His gutter vocabulary
(d) His need to write

6. Why is Henry writing letters to Irene?
(a) She has a room for rent in her house.
(b) She is the rich woman they are trying to secure for Carl.
(c) She answers her letter with money enclosed.
(d) She is a great literary agent.

7. How does Henry see what he calls the inhuman race of artists?
(a) As standing on high places and ripping out their entrails
(b) As being stoned to death my the humans
(c) As being able to sieze the unobtainable.
(d) As divine angels of light

8. Why does Henry return to hustling meals and lodging?
(a) He gets fired from his job.
(b) He doesn't make enough money on his job.
(c) He is trying to save his own money.
(d) Nanantatee kicks him out.

9. What historical information does the photographer give to Henry?
(a) Personal information about great writers he has photographed
(b) The unwritten details of Marie Antoinette's beheading
(c) The part France played in Columbus's expeditions
(d) The history of the Jews during the Black Death

10. Why does Henry enjoy the company of the photographer?
(a) Because of his thorough knowledge of Paris
(b) Because he is less intelligent than Henry
(c) Because he enjoys posing for him
(d) Because he always has money

11. What happens to Henry under the pressure of his job?
(a) He breaks out in hives.
(b) He forgets about sex.
(c) He gets indigestion when he eats.
(d) He becomes neurotic.

12. What effect does Henry think the homeless beggars have on society?
(a) They make us count our blessings.
(b) They make us change the world.
(c) They make us bleed for five minutes, that is all.
(d) They frighten us in the dark.

13. What city in America does Henry recall on the way to Dijon?
(a) Salt Lake city, Utah
(b) Austin, Texas
(c) Los angeles, California
(d) Jacksonville, Florida

14. What does Henry have to tone down on his new job?
(a) His singing
(b) His style of dressing
(c) His vocabulary
(d) His looking for free meals

15. What is Henry's view of his world?
(a) It is dying of cancer.
(b) It is getting smaller and smaller.
(c) It is coming back to life.
(d) It is dying of cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry think of when he is nursing old wounds on his way to Dijon?

2. For whom does Henry do some ghost writing?

3. What was Carl's problem with Irene?

4. Who do Kruger and Swift recommend as a good friend for Henry?

5. How does the English woman react when Henry suggests going to a hotel?

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