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

2. How does Henry say he knows Nanantatee?
(a) They met in New York.
(b) They met on the ship coming from America.
(c) They met at the Dome.
(d) Boris introduced them.

3. How does Nanantatee irritate Henry?
(a) He does not offer wine to Henry when he drinks.
(b) He cleans his apartment all the time.
(c) He tries to convert Henry to Hinduism.
(d) He insists on calling him Endree.

4. What does the young Hindu do before leaving Paris?
(a) Signs a book deal with a publisher
(b) Gets the last of Henry's money
(c) Visits a brothel again
(d) Gets drunk

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Henry thinking about as he walks along the Champs-Elysee?

2. If Emerson is correct in saying that life consists of what a man thinks, what is Henry at this point?

3. What does Henry imagine is the value of the ring he tries to pawn?

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

5. Having gone all day without anything to eat, what enters Henry's mind?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Elsa say bout the Englishman upstairs playing Bach?

2. How does Henry see the American women at the Cafe de la Paix or the Ritz Bar?

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

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

5. How does Henry define health that he equates with optimism?

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

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

8. What does Serge promise in lieu of a big Russian meal each day?

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

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

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