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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 adjective does the narrator use to describe Zohra's every move?
(a) Graceful.
(b) Purposeful.
(c) Practiced.
(d) Calculated.

2. What question does the pastor encourage Arthur to ask himself whenever something during his stay seems to him strange or foolish?
(a) When?
(b) Why?
(c) What?
(d) Who?

3. The narrator states that it is a traveler's what "that one should shop for clothing while abroad"? (116)
(a) Fanciful notion.
(b) Fallacy.
(c) Travesty.
(d) Conundrum.

4. When Arthur's neighbor sees him climb through his apartment window, she is not alarmed since "she knows he is not a thief" and is "clearly just" (108) a what?
(a) A fool.
(b) A Bavarian.
(c) An oaf.
(d) An American.

5. What incarnation of facial hair does Arthur begin to grow in Germany?
(a) A handlebar mustache.
(b) Sideburns.
(c) A beard.
(d) A thin mustache.

Short Answer Questions

1. Zohra tries to get Arthur and Lewis to make a pact with her to give up romance and to take what other action?

2. To his surprise, the reading at which Arthur performs in Germany is held inside what type of establishment?

3. The narrator describes which character as "the kind of woman who would run an international spy ring" (168)?

4. When Arthur shouts to Lewis "This isn't a birthday!" (108), what does he say it is instead?

5. From whom is the note that is awaiting Arthur's arrival when he gets to the writer's retreat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Arthur's duties during his time in Germany?

2. What reasons does the narrator give for agreeing with Zohra's prounouncement that the witnessing of the Moroccan sunset is no time for talking?

3. What characterizes Arthur's approach to teaching?

4. How do Arthur's students, as a whole, respond to his teaching methods?

5. What is the difference between Arthur's expectations of the Indian writer's retreat that Carlos had recommended to him and the reality of the situation once he arrives?

6. How did Arthur react when he came back to his Paris hotel to find Freddy had arrived?

7. What does Finley announce to Arthur as the reason that Arthur's work is not included in the gay literary canon?

8. What is the significance of Arthur noticing the camel boys sitting with their arms around one another in Morocco?

9. How do Freddy and Arthur differ in their approaches to travel?

10. Discuss the significance of Arthur's reflection that he has always alternated between "the city of youth" and "the country of age" (112).

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