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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Henry imagine is the value of the ring he tries to pawn?
(a) Thirty centimes
(b) A dollar and a half
(c) A pound and six pence
(d) Fifty francs

2. How do the commune people get money for food?
(a) Olga makes shoes
(b) The Russians sell blintzes
(c) The Dutchman carves wooden shoes
(d) Henry writes articles for newspapers

3. What lucky find does Henry make in the cafe?
(a) A book by Papini
(b) A wallet filled with francs
(c) A woman who loves to support artists
(d) A ticket to a concert

4. What is Henry's perception of Mr. Wren, the American artist and writer?
(a) He has everything because he has a rich wife.
(b) He is someone Henry wants to know better.
(c) He makes no sense when he talks.
(d) He is a better writer than Henry.

5. How does Nanantatee irritate Henry?
(a) He does not offer wine to Henry when he drinks.
(b) He cleans his apartment all the time.
(c) He insists on calling him Endree.
(d) He tries to convert Henry to Hinduism.

6. What surrounds Henry on his walk on the Rue de Buci?
(a) Hotels and food
(b) Police looking at him suspiciously
(c) Sidewalk food venders
(d) Beggars asking for food

7. Who does Henry believe is undermining him during the last days in Villa Borghese?
(a) Mona, his wife
(b) Tania, Sylverster's wife
(c) Fanny, Moldorf's wife
(d) Elsa, the maid

8. What happens in Henry's head as Moldorf reads the letter from Fanny, his wife in America?
(a) He daydreams of flying to America
(b) He thinks about his own wife, Mona
(c) He gets a migraine
(d) One of his surrealist fantasies

9. What does Henry think about when he listens to Debussy?
(a) He thinks about his next meal.
(b) He wonders how a woman feels during sex.
(c) He thinks about bedbugs and fleas.
(d) He thinks about where he can find a place to stay.

10. What is Henry's problem as the novel opens?
(a) He is about to be evicted.
(b) He lost his wallet.
(c) He is seriously ill.
(d) He needs a desk or table to write on.

11. Normally a slob, how does Nanantatee change after Henry moves in?
(a) He starts picking up after himself.
(b) He moves them into a fancy hotel.
(c) He hires a maid.
(d) He becomes excessively clean.

12. 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 an intelligent, hard working American woman.
(c) As a would-be writer with no talent.
(d) As an emaciated American woman with no ambition.

13. 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) All the food that restaurants throw into the garbage bins
(c) A book he read about cheap whores on the Rue du Pasteur-Wagner
(d) A banquet he once attended where he ate pheasant under glass

14. What is Henry thinking about as he walks along the Champs-Elysee?
(a) His empty stomach
(b) His good friends
(c) His superb health
(d) His new book

15. What does the young Hindu do before leaving Paris?
(a) Signs a book deal with a publisher
(b) Visits a brothel again
(c) Gets the last of Henry's money
(d) Gets drunk

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry resist taking from the Cronstadt baby?

2. What is the condition of the beds in the commune?

3. What does Nanantatee's friend, Kelpi, do when Nanantatee is not at home?

4. What woman is Henry obsessed with?

5. What is ironic about Henry's getting money from Peckover?

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