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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the English woman react when Henry suggests going to a hotel?
(a) She charges an outlandish price.
(b) She slaps his face.
(c) She tells him she is not that sort of girl.
(d) She turns and runs away.

2. What does Henry realize the moment he gets off the train in Dijon?
(a) That he is excited to have a job.
(b) That Dijon is exactly like Paris.
(c) That Dijon will be peaceful and good for him.
(d) That he had made a big mistake.

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

4. What is the wild story Macha first tells Fillmore?
(a) That her family in Russia were in danger of being shot.
(b) That the studio was refusing to release her film.
(c) That she had thrown herself in the Seine after her film career stalled.
(d) That her lover had left her for another actress.

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

6. What is the story the blonde woman tells Henry through her tears?
(a) She says she has recently buried her child.
(b) She says she is being blackmailed.
(c) She says her daughter is in the hsopital.
(d) She says she is about to be evicted from her rooms.

7. Where do Henry and Fillmore stumble in to get out of the cold?
(a) The train station
(b) A wax museum
(c) The Eglise Ste.-Clotilde
(d) The Dome

8. How is Henry surprised by the blonde woman's action in bed?
(a) He cannot believe how accomplished she is.
(b) He fears that she is going to substitute her mother in the bed.
(c) He is startled when she reaches up and turns out the lights.
(d) He is amazed that she refuses to remove her kimono.

9. At three o'clock in the morning, what is going on in Fillmore's apartment?
(a) Henry and Fillmore have both fallen asleep with their clothes on.
(b) Macha wakes them up to get her things out of the apartment.
(c) Henry and Fillmore have two naked trollops romping on the floor.
(d) Henry and Fillmore are deep in metaphysical discussion.

10. Who do Kruger and Swift recommend as a good friend for Henry?
(a) Fillmore, an American attache
(b) Ives, a French surrealist painter
(c) Ivan, a Russian furrier
(d) Peckover, a proofreader

11. What does Henry believe must go along with ideas?
(a) Philosophy
(b) Action
(c) Religion
(d) Politics

12. What was Carl's problem with Irene?
(a) Vinereal diseast
(b) Intimidation
(c) Stammering
(d) Impotence

13. Who gives Henry the money he has upon returning from Le Havre?
(a) Jimmie
(b) Collins
(c) Fillmore
(d) Boris

14. How do Henry and Fillmore become conspicuous in the church?
(a) Laughing out loud
(b) Having a coughing fit
(c) Not knowing what to do with Holy Water
(d) Walking around and making callous remarks

15. What is his idea about his book?
(a) To present a resurrection of emotions
(b) To imitate the best sellers of his day
(c) To give it up because his ideas are too radical
(d) To write only what the public wants to read

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Fillmore so taken with Macha?

2. What city in America does Henry recall on the way to Dijon?

3. What does Van Norden use to bribe Henry into helping him?

4. Who used to call Henry a great human being?

5. Why had Henry gone in to see a Rabbi?

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