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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 the blond woman react to Henry's offer of fifty francs?
(a) She laughs in his face and makes him ashamed.
(b) She screams out that he is a miser.
(c) She accepts it with gratitude.
(d) She is insulted and Henry fears she might make a scene.

2. How does Henry see what he calls the inhuman race of artists?
(a) As being able to sieze the unobtainable.
(b) As being stoned to death my the humans
(c) As standing on high places and ripping out their entrails
(d) As divine angels of light

3. What is Henry's view of his world?
(a) It is dying of cancer.
(b) It is coming back to life.
(c) It is dying of cancer.
(d) It is getting smaller and smaller.

4. What city in America does Henry recall on the way to Dijon?
(a) Austin, Texas
(b) Los angeles, California
(c) Salt Lake city, Utah
(d) Jacksonville, Florida

5. What does Henry say is the worst writing job he undertook?
(a) Children's stories about a mouse
(b) Instruction for assembling kitchen gadgets
(c) A thesis for a deaf and dumb psychologist
(d) Jingles for newspaper ads

Short Answer Questions

1. What favor does Van Norden want Henry to do for him?

2. What does Henry think of when he is nursing old wounds on his way to Dijon?

3. What is Henry's assessment of Mark Swift?

4. What does the priest do with them?

5. What kind of work is Henry doing that is not very creative?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene when Yvette comes in drunk and half naked to Jimmie's bar.

2. Describe Henry's feelings when he has placed himself on a budget.

3. What is it about Van Norden that puzzles Henry?

4. What do Henry's thoughts about the naked trollops represent?

5. Why does Henry think it is a sorry state to be human?

6. What is Fillmore's reason for being so considerate of Henry?

7. Why is Fillmore so late in inviting Henry to move in with him?

8. Explain how Henry is helped from Kruger's studio.

9. Why does Henry stop writing?

10. What is the story that Collins tells Henry to lift his spirits?

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