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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. What is the main thing worrying Henry about his writing?
(a) Not knowing where he can sit to write
(b) Having a serious writer's block
(c) Someone stealing his ideas
(d) Never having enough light to see by

2. What does the young Hindu do that upsets the madame?
(a) He uses the bidet for a toilet.
(b) He beats up a girl.
(c) He smokes foul smelling Indian cigars.
(d) He refuses to pay.

3. What deformity does Henry have in his fantasy at the cinema?
(a) He has a glass eye.
(b) He has a club foot.
(c) He has a crippled right hand.
(d) He is short like Moldorf.

4. How does Henry slightly disagree with Papini?
(a) Papini desires to be alone; Henry wants loneliness.
(b) Papini needs opera; Henry prefers musical comedy.
(c) Papini flirts with religion; Henry refutes religion.
(d) Papini advises fasting; Henry advises feating.

5. What is the title that Henry wishes he had thought of?
(a) Man and Superman
(b) The Sun Also Rises
(c) The Red Shoes
(d) A Man Cut in Slices

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Marlowe about to go?

2. What emotion does Claude arouse in Henry?

3. How does Henry picture Serge's lazy slut of a wife?

4. How much money does Henry get from Peckover?

5. What does Carl say makes him want to go to Arizona?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how Kelpi makes his living.

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

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

4. What are Henry's evenings with Carl like?

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

6. Why does Henry leave the apartment when Boris sits down to eat?

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

8. How does Henry get away from Serge?

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

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

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