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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the reader know how angry the priest is?

2. Who do Kruger and Swift recommend as a good friend for Henry?

3. What happens to Henry under the pressure of his job?

4. Who urges Henry to run away to Russia with Tania?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the one thing that makes Van Norden's dump of a hotel acceptable?

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

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

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

5. Why does Kruger evict Henry from his studio?

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

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

8. How does Henry feel going to his room in the dark dormitory late at night?

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

10. Why does Henry stop writing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One of the more amusing antics in the novel is the letter writing campaign to find Carl a rich wife. Write an essay expressing your opinion about marrying for money versus marrying for love. Let your creativity flow, using humor to get your points across.

Essay Topic 2

Henry cannot show Mona the Paris he is so enamored of because his love of the city is all bound up in his suffering. Write an essay about the difference in visiting a place as a tourist and really knowing the place from having lived there.

Essay Topic 3

Miller correctly identifies many people's obsession with royalty in Chapter 12 when he writes about Macha, the presumed Russian princess. Write a paper expressing your opinion about how you see the status of royalty today. You might want to include a reference to the late Princess Diana of England in your comments.

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