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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is ironic about Henry's getting money from Peckover?
(a) He is almost as impoverished as Henry.
(b) He and Henry have a long standing feud.
(c) Peckover is Sylvester's cousin.
(d) Peckover cannot remember where he met Henry.

2. How does Henry make a little extra money while he is at Fillmore's place?
(a) Occasionally Carl comes by with a writing assignment he does not want to do himself.
(b) He does more nude modeling for Swift.
(c) He pawns things Fillmore would probably not miss.
(d) He sells some of the pornographic pictures he posed for.

3. What does Henry want to see in the Pension Orfila?
(a) The lavatories with the gold fixtures
(b) The bust of Homer
(c) The fabled murals by Picasso
(d) The room where Strindberg once lived

4. Why does Van Norden insist that his teeth are all rotten?
(a) Because of the water in Paris
(b) Because he lost his toothbrush
(c) Because of the bread in France
(d) Because his dentist is incompetent

5. What is the story the blonde woman tells Henry through her tears?
(a) She says her daughter is in the hsopital.
(b) She says she is about to be evicted from her rooms.
(c) She says she is being blackmailed.
(d) She says she has recently buried her child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Carl's problem with Irene?

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

3. How long does it take before Irene agrees to meet Carl in her hotel?

4. What does Henry have to tone down on his new job?

5. What is it in Irene's expensive hotel that makes Henry think about Van Norden?

(see the answer key)

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