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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 after Fillmore leaves for work in the mornings?
(a) He sits at the table and stares at a blank page.
(b) He goes back to sleep, sometimes not getting up before noon.
(c) He puts out pages of an old book he wrote years ago
(d) He goes for a stroll

2. How does the blond woman react to Henry's offer of fifty francs?
(a) She laughs in his face and makes him ashamed.
(b) She accepts it with gratitude.
(c) She screams out that he is a miser.
(d) She is insulted and Henry fears she might make a scene.

3. What is it in Irene's expensive hotel that makes Henry think about Van Norden?
(a) The revolving door
(b) All the rich Englishwomen there
(c) Seeing a prostitute he had once pointed out ot Henry
(d) A young virgin coming in as he is going out

4. What are the physical ailments of the people in Fillmore's apartment?
(a) They all come down with influenza.
(b) Fillmore has bronchitis, Macha has the clap, and Henry has piles.
(c) Macha give the clap to both Fillmore and Henry.
(d) Macha falls and breaks her arm, Fillmore cartches cold, and Henry has the measles.

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

6. 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 always has money
(d) Because he enjoys posing for him

7. What does Henry want to see in the Pension Orfila?
(a) The fabled murals by Picasso
(b) The room where Strindberg once lived
(c) The bust of Homer
(d) The lavatories with the gold fixtures

8. Who is the spiritual minded person Henry meets through the photographer?
(a) The Dalai Lama
(b) Anise Nin
(c) Voltaire
(d) Kruger

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

10. Why does Van Norden not want to go to the Dome?
(a) He is tired of going to the Dome.
(b) He does not like the decor.
(c) He owes too much money there.
(d) He was there only last night.

11. Who urges Henry to run away to Russia with Tania?
(a) Peckover
(b) Nanantatee
(c) Carl
(d) Boris

12. What finally gets the Russian princess out of Fillmore's apartment?
(a) Macha is hospitalized.
(b) Macha gets her inheritance.
(c) The cold makes Macha leave.
(d) The police come for Macha.

13. Describe the ridiculous method Fillmore has of getting women into his bedroom.
(a) He shows them his laundry bag with the slogan, No tickee, no washee.
(b) He asks them to suggest how he should redecorate.
(c) He shows them the view of the barracks.
(d) He wants them to see his etchings.

14. What does Henry say he knows about in the same way he knows about slaughterhouses and morgues?
(a) Writing
(b) The Catholic mass
(c) Women
(d) How to form lasting friendships

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After losing his job, what do Carl and Van Norden keep asking Henry?

2. How long does it take before Irene agrees to meet Carl in her hotel?

3. What does Fillmore leave for Henry every morning after he moves in?

4. Why is Fillmore so taken with Macha?

5. What is the story the blonde woman tells Henry through her tears?

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