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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Henry say Van Norden tracks down like a sleuth?
(a) Married women
(b) Virgins
(c) Cheap prostitutes
(d) Rich women
2. How is Henry surprised by the blonde woman's action in bed?
(a) He cannot believe how accomplished she is.
(b) He is startled when she reaches up and turns out the lights.
(c) He fears that she is going to substitute her mother in the bed.
(d) He is amazed that she refuses to remove her kimono.
3. Who does Henry think is the one lone literary figure America has produced?
(a) Whitman
(b) Hawthorne
(c) Longfellow
(d) Poe
4. What is Henry's response when the English girl asks for a loan of fifteen or twenty francs?
(a) He gives her fifty francs.
(b) He laughs in her face.
(c) He insists that she go to bed with him.
(d) He runs away from her.
5. What does Henry have to tone down on his new job?
(a) His singing
(b) His style of dressing
(c) His looking for free meals
(d) His vocabulary
6. How do Henry and Fillmore become conspicuous in the church?
(a) Not knowing what to do with Holy Water
(b) Walking around and making callous remarks
(c) Laughing out loud
(d) Having a coughing fit
7. What is the best thing Henry notes about Kruger, the painter and sculptor?
(a) He is also a great chef.
(b) He is unbelievably wealthy.
(c) He is a splendid housekeeper.
(d) He has many contacts in the publishing world.
8. What was Carl's problem with Irene?
(a) Vinereal diseast
(b) Impotence
(c) Intimidation
(d) Stammering
9. How does Henry make a little extra money while he is at Fillmore's place?
(a) He pawns things Fillmore would probably not miss.
(b) He sells some of the pornographic pictures he posed for.
(c) He does more nude modeling for Swift.
(d) Occasionally Carl comes by with a writing assignment he does not want to do himself.
10. Who urges Henry to run away to Russia with Tania?
(a) Boris
(b) Nanantatee
(c) Peckover
(d) Carl
11. At the blonde woman's apartment, what feeling does Henry have when she goes to see her sick mother?
(a) He fears that some kind of scam is being pulled on him.
(b) He thinks the woman is holding out for more money.
(c) He feels that he is in some kind of drama that will be in the morning papers.
(d) He decides to leave and never come back.
12. What is Henry's curious speculation about Mona?
(a) He wonders if she ever thinks about him.
(b) He wonders if they will ever be together again.
(c) He wonders if she has gotten fat.
(d) He wonders why she does not send him more money.
13. What does Mona never understand about Henry?
(a) His attraction for Paris
(b) His gutter vocabulary
(c) His philandering ways
(d) His need to write
14. How does the blond woman react to Henry's offer of fifty francs?
(a) She screams out that he is a miser.
(b) She is insulted and Henry fears she might make a scene.
(c) She accepts it with gratitude.
(d) She laughs in his face and makes him ashamed.
15. What does Henry have to learn to do in his new job?
(a) Write obituaries
(b) Make coffee
(c) Kiss the boss' ass
(d) Operate a printing press
Short Answer Questions
1. Why could Henry never show Mona the Paris he loves?
2. Why had Henry gone in to see a Rabbi?
3. What are the physical ailments of the people in Fillmore's apartment?
4. What weakness appears in Henry as he plans how to use the money given to him?
5. When Henry is alone with Tania, what does she do?
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