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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are they looking for in the church when the priest stops them?
(a) The candles
(b) The collection box
(c) The statue of the Virgin
(d) The exit

2. What does Henry believe must go along with ideas?
(a) Action
(b) Philosophy
(c) Religion
(d) Politics

3. Who do Kruger and Swift recommend as a good friend for Henry?
(a) Ivan, a Russian furrier
(b) Fillmore, an American attache
(c) Peckover, a proofreader
(d) Ives, a French surrealist painter

4. How long does it take before Irene agrees to meet Carl in her hotel?
(a) Over a year
(b) About six months
(c) The end of the year
(d) Only a few weeks

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 being blackmailed.
(c) She says she has recently buried her child.
(d) She says she is about to be evicted from her rooms.

6. How do Fillmore and Henry deal with the cold flat?
(a) They sleep in the same bed.
(b) They sip hot toddies.
(c) The burn the furniture.
(d) They leave and go visit Carl.

7. Why is Fillmore so taken with Macha?
(a) He thinks she may know a princess for Henry.
(b) He is impressed with her title.
(c) He believes she will make him a duke.
(d) He expects her to fall in love with him.

8. At three o'clock in the morning, what is going on in Fillmore's apartment?
(a) Henry and Fillmore have both fallen asleep with their clothes on.
(b) Henry and Fillmore are deep in metaphysical discussion.
(c) Henry and Fillmore have two naked trollops romping on the floor.
(d) Macha wakes them up to get her things out of the apartment.

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

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

11. What does Mona never understand about Henry?
(a) His gutter vocabulary
(b) His attraction for Paris
(c) His philandering ways
(d) His need to write

12. What does Henry think will happen to the world if someone really writes his true thoughts and experiences?
(a) The world will destruct.
(b) The world will only sigh and go to sleep.
(c) The world will reawaken.
(d) The world will g on turning.

13. What is the best thing Henry notes about Kruger, the painter and sculptor?
(a) He is also a great chef.
(b) He is a splendid housekeeper.
(c) He has many contacts in the publishing world.
(d) He is unbelievably wealthy.

14. What weakness appears in Henry as he plans how to use the money given to him?
(a) He finds a budget place to live but shells out money to women.
(b) He cannot pass up the French pastries at the bakery.
(c) He buys new clothes and goes to the opera.
(d) He buys expensive liquour and invites Fillmore over.

15. What historical information does the photographer give to Henry?
(a) The history of the Jews during the Black Death
(b) The unwritten details of Marie Antoinette's beheading
(c) The part France played in Columbus's expeditions
(d) Personal information about great writers he has photographed

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Carl's problem with Irene?

2. Why could Henry never show Mona the Paris he loves?

3. Why is Henry going to Dijon?

4. How is Henry greeted by Macha when he first meets her?

5. What does Van Norden use to bribe Henry into helping him?

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