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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 does Henry believe must go along with ideas?
(a) Politics
(b) Religion
(c) Philosophy
(d) Action

2. What happens to Peckover that may benefit Henry?
(a) Peckover is getting a riase and will be able to help Henry.
(b) Peckover is fired and Henry may get the job.
(c) Peckover died and Henry may be mentioned in his will.
(d) Peckover is transferred to Dijon and may take Henry with him.

3. Who do Kruger and Swift recommend as a good friend for Henry?
(a) Peckover, a proofreader
(b) Ivan, a Russian furrier
(c) Ives, a French surrealist painter
(d) Fillmore, an American attache

4. How much does Henry plan to spend on the blonde woman?
(a) He plans to get her to bed him for free.
(b) He plans to offer to let her move in with him.
(c) He plans to spend only fifty francs.
(d) He plans to spend over a hundred francs.

5. What does Van Norden use to bribe Henry into helping him?
(a) His black book of names of girls who have sex for free
(b) A few hundred francs
(c) A place to write
(d) The promise of a meal now and then

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Carl's problem with Irene?

2. Who does Henry think is the one lone literary figure America has produced?

3. How does Henry make a little extra money while he is at Fillmore's place?

4. What does Henry see as the only faults of Swift's mistress and model?

5. Where do Henry and Fillmore stumble in to get out of the cold?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Henry see flow of the word about him?

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

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

4. What is it about Boris that Henry can never quite understand?

5. What makes Henry think about the high born women of Paris?

6. What does Henry think about the English girl who stops him in the rain to ask for the time?

7. When the blonde woman stays away too long and leaves Henry alone in her room, what does he do?

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

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

10. Describe the idea Henry and Carl get from Van Norden.

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