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

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

3. Where is Marlowe about to go?
(a) London
(b) New York City
(c) San Francisco
(d) Hamburg

4. What does Carl say makes him want to go to Arizona?
(a) It is a good place for his allergies.
(b) It is a place where there is lots of space.
(c) It is a place where they look you square in the eye.
(d) It is a place where he can find quiet to write.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the movie playing at the Cine Combat?

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

3. Where does Henry stay warm on a cold Easter morning?

4. About what does Serge want to learn?

5. What is the first thing the Hindu religious wants to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Henry describe Moldorf?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Henry see the cheap whores at the corner of Rue Amelot?

10. Why is Henry so generous with his praise of the prostitute Germaine?

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