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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the movie playing at the Cine Combat?
(a) Metropolis
(b) The Jazz Singer
(c) Gone With the Wind
(d) Notorious

2. What does the American woman inquire about that astonishes Henry?
(a) The view
(b) The heating system
(c) The toilet
(d) The furniture

3. What is the condition of the beds in the commune?
(a) They have no blankets against the cold nights.
(b) They are used by three or four people at once.
(c) They are straw mats on a hard floor.
(d) They are crawling with bedbugs.

4. Having gone all day without anything to eat, what enters Henry's mind?
(a) His wife Mona who is working and has plenty to eat
(b) A book he read about cheap whores on the Rue du Pasteur-Wagner
(c) A banquet he once attended where he ate pheasant under glass
(d) All the food that restaurants throw into the garbage bins

5. What price is extracted from Henry for his meals at the Cronstadts?
(a) Carbons and babysitting
(b) Cleaning the toilets
(c) Translating letters
(d) Reading from his manuscript

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main thing worrying Henry about his writing?

2. What woman is Henry obsessed with?

3. Who asks Sylvester if he can stay with him until he goes to bed?

4. What happens in Henry's head as Moldorf reads the letter from Fanny, his wife in America?

5. In spite of Marlowe's assurances, what do Carl and Henry know he will not do?

(see the answer key)

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