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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. What does Henry say is the worst writing job he undertook?
2. What effect does Henry think the homeless beggars have on society?
3. What is the wild story Macha first tells Fillmore?
4. One place has a good room but why does he not take it?
5. What favor does Van Norden want Henry to do for him?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do Henry's thoughts about the naked trollops represent?
2. Does Henry see everything that flows in the same way it was seen by Milton?
3. Describe the nature of the job Henry accepts in Dijon.
4. Why does Henry stop writing?
5. Explain how Henry is helped from Kruger's studio.
6. Why does Henry think it is a sorry state to be human?
7. Why is Fillmore so late in inviting Henry to move in with him?
8. What does Henry think about the English girl who stops him in the rain to ask for the time?
9. What makes Henry think about the high born women of Paris?
10. Explain how Henry compares Paris to a whore.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Henry quotes Emerson as saying that life consists of what one thinks. Write an essay explaining how you interpret Emerson's statement. Use examples you know of personally or have read about where people achieved because of their focus on certain goals.
Essay Topic 2
In American lore, the idea of staying somewhere that George Washington once slept has a kind of romantic appeal. In the TROPIC OF CANCER, Van Norden's dumpy hotel is made appealing by the hint that Maupassant once lived there. Henry goes to see the room where Strindberg once stayed. Write an essay about a place you would like to visit because some person you admire once stayed or lived there.
Essay Topic 3
Write a paper about how the French surrealists influenced Miller's work. Use two or three of the surreal dreams or day dreams in the book to illustrate your point. How do some of those passages sound like an early encounter with the Twilight Zone.
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