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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Henry say is the worst writing job he undertook?
(a) Jingles for newspaper ads
(b) Instruction for assembling kitchen gadgets
(c) Children's stories about a mouse
(d) A thesis for a deaf and dumb psychologist
2. At three o'clock in the morning, what is going on in Fillmore's apartment?
(a) Macha wakes them up to get her things out of the apartment.
(b) Henry and Fillmore have two naked trollops romping on the floor.
(c) Henry and Fillmore have both fallen asleep with their clothes on.
(d) Henry and Fillmore are deep in metaphysical discussion.
3. Why does Van Norden insist that his teeth are all rotten?
(a) Because he lost his toothbrush
(b) Because of the bread in France
(c) Because his dentist is incompetent
(d) Because of the water in Paris
4. For whom does Henry do some ghost writing?
(a) A Russian art dealer
(b) A Jewish fur merchant
(c) A german he met through Elsa
(d) The owner of the Dome
5. What does Mona never understand about Henry?
(a) His gutter vocabulary
(b) His need to write
(c) His attraction for Paris
(d) His philandering ways
Short Answer Questions
1. When Henry is alone with Tania, what does she do?
2. Who does Henry think is the one lone literary figure America has produced?
3. What does Van Norden call everyone?
4. What does Henry say he knows about in the same way he knows about slaughterhouses and morgues?
5. What does Henry do after Fillmore leaves for work in the mornings?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Henry stop writing?
2. Explain how Henry is helped from Kruger's studio.
3. Give a brief description of Van Norden.
4. Does Henry see everything that flows in the same way it was seen by Milton?
5. How do both Fillmore and Henry appear to be gullible?
6. Where has Tania been and what does she want from Henry?
7. What is the story that Collins tells Henry to lift his spirits?
8. What is Fillmore's reason for being so considerate of Henry?
9. When the blonde woman stays away too long and leaves Henry alone in her room, what does he do?
10. Describe the scene when Yvette comes in drunk and half naked to Jimmie's bar.
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