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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Henry picture Serge's lazy slut of a wife?
(a) As a fat American lying on the sofa eating bon bons.
(b) As a would-be writer with no talent.
(c) As an intelligent, hard working American woman.
(d) As an emaciated American woman with no ambition.

2. Who urges Henry to run away to Russia with Tania?
(a) Nanantatee
(b) Peckover
(c) Carl
(d) Boris

3. At the blonde woman's apartment, what feeling does Henry have when she goes to see her sick mother?
(a) He thinks the woman is holding out for more money.
(b) He decides to leave and never come back.
(c) He feels that he is in some kind of drama that will be in the morning papers.
(d) He fears that some kind of scam is being pulled on him.

4. Why had Henry gone in to see a Rabbi?
(a) He thought the synagogue was a school.
(b) He thought Jews would be more generous than Christians.
(c) He wanted instruction to become a Jew.
(d) He was looking for a Jewish friend.

5. Who helps get Henry out of Nanantatee's apartment much of the time?
(a) Sylvester and Tania
(b) Germaine
(c) A young Hindu lecturer from India
(d) Kelpi

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Fillmore so taken with Macha?

2. What are the physical ailments of the people in Fillmore's apartment?

3. What do Carl and Henry share in Carl's apartment?

4. Who gives Henry the money he has upon returning from Le Havre?

5. What is the trouble Carl has gotten into with his latest live-in girl?

(see the answer key)

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