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Herzog

Saul Bellow

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Who is Herzog's current lover?

(A) Madeleine

(B) Daisy

(D) Lucas

Where is Herzog temporarily living?

(A) In his country home in the Berkshires

(B) In his friend's home in Martha's Vineyard

(D) With his Tante Taube

When does the action of the book take place?

(A) During Herzog's fall teaching semester

(B) During the winter

(D) During the summer

Who is Madeleine's lover?

(A) Phoebe's husband

(B) Valentine

(D) All of the above

What is Herzog's area of study?

(A) The Enlightenment

(B) Romanticism

(D) Philosophy

Who is Daisy?

(A) Herzog's first wife

(B) Madeleine's sister

(D) June's mother

What was the profession of Madeleine's father?

(A) Bootlegger

(B) Salesman

(D) Scholar

Where did Moses live as a child?

(A) Russia

(B) New York

(D) Canada

To whom of the following does Herzog not write a letter?

(A) God

(B) The president of the United States

(D) His dog

What is Gersbach's first name?

(A) George

(B) Jonah

(D) Moses

Where does Madeleine live?

(A) The Berkshires

(B) Chicago

(D) Canada

Who helped Valentine find a job in Chicago?

(A) Madeleine

(B) Phoebe

(D) Moses

What is Moses' cultural background?

(A) Russian Jewish

(B) American Gentile

(D) New Yorker Protestant

Why is Lucas Asphalter currently depressed?

(A) Because he had to move from his homeland

(B) Because he hates New York

(D) Because he is recently divorced

How old is Moses?

(A) He is in his forties

(B) The reader is never told his age

(D) He is in his early twenties

What is the title of Moses's one published book?

(A) The Life of Thoreau

(B) The Romantics

(D) The State of Nature in the 17th and 18th Century English and French Political Philosophy

From whom is Moses running away when he decides to go to Martha's Vineyard?

(A) Ramona

(B) Madeleine

(D) His children

Who is Tennie?

(A) Moses' mother

(B) Moses' sister

(D) Madeleine's mother

Who is Jonah Herzog?

(A) Moses' brother

(B) Moses' son

(D) Moses' friend

Who is George Hoberly?

(A) Ramona's ex-boyfriend

(B) Moses' best friend

(D) Ramona's husband

Whose house does Moses visit first in Chicago?

(A) His

(B) The house of his best friend Lucas

(D) Phoebe's

What does Herzog take from his father's desk?

(A) His father's old watch

(B) His father's pen

(D) A letter he had written to his father

What happens on the day that Moses takes his daughter to the aquarium?

(A) He gets into a fistfight with Gersbach

(B) He points his gun at Madeleine

(D) He gets into a car accident

What had Moses intended to do with the gun?

(A) Kill Madeleine and Gersbach

(B) Kill himself

(D) Nothing—he merely wanted it for sentimental reasons

Where does Moses end up at the end of the novel?

(A) In New York City

(B) Back in the Berkshires

(D) In a hospital

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