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

2. What does Fillmore do when he arrives home from work in the evenings?
(a) He tells Henry about the women he met that day.
(b) He uncorks some champagne.
(c) He goes to the table to see how many pages Henry has written that day.
(d) He invites Henry out to dinner.

3. How do Fillmore and Henry deal with the cold flat?
(a) They sip hot toddies.
(b) They leave and go visit Carl.
(c) The burn the furniture.
(d) They sleep in the same bed.

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

5. What does Macha do immediately when she sees that two men live at Fillmore's place?
(a) She sizes up which one has the money.
(b) She informs them that she is not that kind of woman.
(c) She begins to try and play them against each other.
(d) She gets frightened and leaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Henry surprised by the blonde woman's action in bed?

2. What is Henry's opinion about the war games that take place at the barracks next to Fillmore's place?

3. Why could Henry never show Mona the Paris he loves?

4. What finally gets the Russian princess out of Fillmore's apartment?

5. What does Henry suggest is the task of the artist?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain how Henry compares Paris to a whore.

3. Give a brief description of Van Norden.

4. How does Henry start out to spend his last night in Paris before going to Dijon?

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

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

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

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

9. Why is it that Henry does not want to go to Russia with Tania?

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

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