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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 does Kelpi make his living?
(a) Collecting bottles for recycling.
(b) Picking tourists' pockets.
(c) Guiding tourists to places where he gets a commission.
(d) Delivering messages.

2. If Emerson is correct in saying that life consists of what a man thinks, what is Henry at this point?
(a) No words on a blank page
(b) A wine bottle
(c) One long intestine
(d) A satyr

3. What is the movie playing at the Cine Combat?
(a) Metropolis
(b) The Jazz Singer
(c) Gone With the Wind
(d) Notorious

4. What is ironic about Henry's getting money from Peckover?
(a) He and Henry have a long standing feud.
(b) Peckover is Sylvester's cousin.
(c) Peckover cannot remember where he met Henry.
(d) He is almost as impoverished as Henry.

5. What makes Henry feel ill when he opens the door of the commune?
(a) The stale smoke in the room
(b) The smell of cooking with rancid butter
(c) The body odor of the Russians
(d) The smell of disinfectants

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nanantatee irritate Henry?

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

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

4. Where has Henry taken the young Hindu for his sexual experience?

5. Who helps get Henry out of Nanantatee's apartment much of the time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Henry get away from Serge?

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

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

4. What does Henry say about his escape from Serge?

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

6. What does Henry know about Walter Pach?

7. Explain how Kelpi makes his living.

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

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

10. How does Henry describe Moldorf?

(see the answer keys)

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