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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. After losing his job, what do Carl and Van Norden keep asking Henry?

2. What weakness appears in Henry as he plans how to use the money given to him?

3. For whom does Henry do some ghost writing?

4. What does Van Norden use to bribe Henry into helping him?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Henry stop writing?

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

6. Where has Tania been and what does she want from Henry?

7. Explain how Henry compares Paris to a whore.

8. Does Henry see everything that flows in the same way it was seen by Milton?

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

10. Give a brief description of Van Norden.

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

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

A difficult time for Henry was when he was employed and had to, as he put it, kiss the boss's ass. Write a paper on the difficulty of being an employee and having to suppress your personal feelings and ideas because of a dictatorial boss.

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