Tropic of Cancer Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Tropic of Cancer Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money does Henry get from Peckover?
(a) Fifty centimes
(b) One franc-fifty
(c) Ten francs
(d) Fifty francs

2. What has Van Norden lost at the Bal Negre?
(a) His wallet
(b) His toupee
(c) His gold pen
(d) His false teeth

3. How does Henry describe Elsa's piano playing?
(a) Like an out of tune organ
(b) Like wind howling through the trees
(c) Like divine music
(d) Like broken pots and skulls clanking

4. About what does Serge want to learn?
(a) California wines
(b) Worms
(c) Fishing
(d) Import-export

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What price is extracted from Henry for his meals at the Cronstadts?

2. Why is Serge happy to meet Henry?

3. How does Henry sum up his idea of le bel aujourd'hui?

4. What does Henry resist taking from the Cronstadt baby?

5. What emotion does Claude arouse in Henry?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Henry use sarcasm in describing Nanantatee's lavish apartment?

2. In relating his experience with the young Hindu, what is Henry expressing about his own beliefs?

3. How does Henry get away from Serge?

4. What importance does Henry place on both the past and the future?

5. Why does Henry go so often to the American Express office?

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

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

8. What lie does Henry tell the Cronstadts when they invite him to join their meal?

9. How does Henry describe the relationship between him, Boris, and Elsa?

10. What does Henry know about Walter Pach?

(see the answer keys)

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