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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens in the place where Macha is known and has her hand kissed repeatedly?
(a) Macha refuses to leave with Fillmore.
(b) Macha gets drunk and agrees to go to bed with Fillmore.
(c) Macha goes to make a phone call and never returns.
(d) Macha confesses that she is not a real princess.

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

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

4. What is the best thing Henry notes about Kruger, the painter and sculptor?
(a) He has many contacts in the publishing world.
(b) He is also a great chef.
(c) He is a splendid housekeeper.
(d) He is unbelievably wealthy.

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

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

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

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

9. Where do Henry and Tania go that he has never been before?
(a) The swell bars around the Champs-Elysee
(b) The expensive department stores of Paris
(c) The Louvre
(d) The sight seeing trips down the Seine

10. How does Henry make the decision to go to the blonde woman's apartment?
(a) He thinks it will cheer her up if he goes to her place.
(b) He thinks that at her place he might suggest moving in with her.
(c) He believes she will not sleep with him in a hotel.
(d) He thinks it will be cheaper than paying for a hotel room.

11. 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 thinks the woman is holding out for more money.
(c) He fears that some kind of scam is being pulled on him.
(d) He decides to leave and never come back.

12. What does Henry suggest is the task of the artist?
(a) To create something of his own out of the chaos around him
(b) To give the public what it wants
(c) To make bloated pages and erase petty intrusions
(d) To present only the beauty of the world

13. What is Henry's opinion about the war games that take place at the barracks next to Fillmore's place?
(a) He thinks that it makes him feel safe to be in France.
(b) He thinks they are depressing and utterly ridiculous.
(c) He thinks that maybe he sould join the French Foriegn Legion.
(d) He thinks they are quite entertaining.

14. What is Van Norden's objection to French girls?
(a) They charge too much for their services.
(b) Either they want money or to get married.
(c) They act as though they are doing him a favor.
(d) They wear too much perfume.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Henry's assessment of Mark Swift?

2. Why could Henry never show Mona the Paris he loves?

3. How much does Henry plan to spend on the blonde woman?

4. What does Henry see as the only faults of Swift's mistress and model?

5. What does Henry do for a photographer?

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