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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 condition of the beds in the commune?
(a) They are used by three or four people at once.
(b) They are straw mats on a hard floor.
(c) They are crawling with bedbugs.
(d) They have no blankets against the cold nights.

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

3. What emotion does Claude arouse in Henry?
(a) Indifference
(b) Pity
(c) Hate
(d) Lust

4. Who comprises the communal life with Henry?
(a) Some dwarfs from the Cirque Medrano
(b) Several young expatriate American students
(c) Some crazy Russians, a Dutchman, and a Bulgarian woman nemed Olge
(d) A dormitory of university students

5. What does Henry buy with the money he takes from Peckover?
(a) A cheap bottle of wine
(b) An American breakfast
(c) A dozen eggs
(d) Coffee and a croissant

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Henry say Moldorf hears his own voice?

2. What does the American woman inquire about that astonishes Henry?

3. Why is Boris intimidated by his wife?

4. Why can Henry not go to the cinema or into the opium joint?

5. How does Henry slightly disagree with Papini?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Henry get away from Serge?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Henry describe Moldorf?

9. How does Henry contrast a merry-go-round and the Germans?

10. What does Henry know about Walter Pach?

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