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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Henry always looking for a free meal?
(a) He is perpetually hungry.
(b) He is trying to cut down on his expenses.
(c) He wants people to feel sorry for him.
(d) He is too miserly to buy for himself.

2. In spite of Marlowe's assurances, what do Carl and Henry know he will not do?
(a) Pay them when he returns
(b) Bring them souvenirs from America
(c) Write them them every day
(d) Recommend them for jobs

3. 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

4. When Henry is writing about Claude, of whom is he really thinking?
(a) Tania
(b) Fanny
(c) Germaine
(d) Mona

5. To torment Carl, what gossip does Marlowe whisper in his ear?
(a) You're going to lose your job.
(b) Your favorite girl has the clap.
(c) Your apartment building is about to be condemned.
(d) The police are looking for you.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Henry's curious speculation about Mona?

2. What was Carl's problem with Irene?

3. What does Mona never understand about Henry?

4. In Henry's fantasy about Fanny, what is happening to her?

5. What is Marlowe's usual trick to get out of paying a bar bill?

(see the answer key)

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