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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. What woman is Henry obsessed with?
(a) Ginette
(b) Claude
(c) Mona Lisa
(d) Tania

3. On what are Henry and Boris talking about collaborating?
(a) A History of the Left Bank
(b) The Last Book
(c) The Death of the World
(d) The End of Innocence

4. How long has Henry's wife, Mona, been gone from Paris?
(a) Three years
(b) Several days
(c) A month
(d) A year

5. What is Henry's metaphor for his artistic suffering?
(a) Lying down with lions
(b) Being enslaved
(c) Walking on hot coals
(d) Digging graves

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title that Henry wishes he had thought of?

2. What is Henry's problem as the novel opens?

3. Why is Boris intimidated by his wife?

4. When Henry is writing about Claude, of whom is he really thinking?

5. Who does Henry praise for putting her whole soul into her whoring?

(see the answer key)

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