View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Henry stay warm on a cold Easter morning?
(a) In bed
(b) In Eglise Ste.-Clotilde
(c) In the Dome
(d) In the hotel lobby

2. Having gone all day without anything to eat, what enters Henry's mind?
(a) A banquet he once attended where he ate pheasant under glass
(b) His wife Mona who is working and has plenty to eat
(c) All the food that restaurants throw into the garbage bins
(d) A book he read about cheap whores on the Rue du Pasteur-Wagner

3. What author does Henry discover that cheers him?
(a) Goethe
(b) Papini
(c) Immanuel Kant
(d) Benedetto Croce

4. What surrounds Henry on his walk on the Rue de Buci?
(a) Sidewalk food venders
(b) Beggars asking for food
(c) Hotels and food
(d) Police looking at him suspiciously

5. What price is extracted from Henry for his meals at the Cronstadts?
(a) Translating letters
(b) Carbons and babysitting
(c) Reading from his manuscript
(d) Cleaning the toilets

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the movie playing at the Cine Combat?

2. What does Henry think about when he listens to Debussy?

3. To torment Carl, what gossip does Marlowe whisper in his ear?

4. How are Boris and Henry planning to write THE LAST BOOK?

5. What is Henry's metaphor for his artistic suffering?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had Henry hoped for when he met Serge?

2. What does Henry know about Walter Pach?

3. In an attempt to get money, what is Henry unable to do?

4. How does Henry describe the book on which he is working?

5. How does Henry see the cheap whores at the corner of Rue Amelot?

6. What is the scene at the beginning of the novel and how does it set up the condition Henry is in while in Paris?

7. How did Nanantatee fool Henry and other people when he was in New York?

8. Describe Henry's friends in Paris.

9. How does Henry get away from Serge?

10. What is Henry's bright idea to get at least one free meal a day?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 596 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample