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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How much does Henry plan to spend on the blonde woman?
(a) He plans to offer to let her move in with him.
(b) He plans to spend over a hundred francs.
(c) He plans to get her to bed him for free.
(d) He plans to spend only fifty francs.

3. What does Henry think will happen to the world if someone really writes his true thoughts and experiences?
(a) The world will g on turning.
(b) The world will only sigh and go to sleep.
(c) The world will destruct.
(d) The world will reawaken.

4. Who used to call Henry a great human being?
(a) Mona
(b) Boris
(c) Tania
(d) Collins

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

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

7. What is Henry's behavior just before he leaves the blonde woman's room?
(a) He gets very angry that she left him there alone.
(b) He listens for her return and takes back the money he gave her.
(c) He becomes panicky thinking she has gone for the police.
(d) He takes his time putting his clothes back on.

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

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

10. After losing his job, what do Carl and Van Norden keep asking Henry?
(a) Where are you going to find another job?
(b) Who will take you in since you've been through all your friends?
(c) Why don't you go back to America?
(d) What will you do it your wife returns to Paris?

11. What does Henry say is the worst writing job he undertook?
(a) Instruction for assembling kitchen gadgets
(b) Children's stories about a mouse
(c) A thesis for a deaf and dumb psychologist
(d) Jingles for newspaper ads

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

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

14. How does the reader know how angry the priest is?
(a) He is jumping up and down just outside the door.
(b) The veins pop out on his temples.
(c) He shouts surses at Henry and Fillmore.
(d) He chases Henry and Fillmore outside, shaking his fist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best thing Henry notes about Kruger, the painter and sculptor?

2. Where do Henry and Tania go that he has never been before?

3. What weakness appears in Henry as he plans how to use the money given to him?

4. What does Henry say Van Norden tracks down like a sleuth?

5. What do Henry and Fillmore do when the priest chases them outside?

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