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Herzog
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Herzog
by:
Saul Bellow
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Section 3
Section 4
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
Section 9
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Moses Herzog
Madeleine
Gersbach
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1. Who is Herzog's current lover?
Madeleine
Daisy
Ramona
Lucas
2. Where is Herzog temporarily living?
In his country home in the Berkshires
In his friend's home in Martha's Vineyard
With Lucas Asphalter
With his Tante Taube
3. When does the action of the book take place?
During Herzog's fall teaching semester
During the winter
During the final days of Herzog's second marriage
During the summer
4. Who is Madeleine's lover?
Phoebe's husband
Valentine
Herzog's best friend
All of the above
5. What is Herzog's area of study?
The Enlightenment
Romanticism
Psychiatry
Philosophy
6. Who is Daisy?
Herzog's first wife
Madeleine's sister
Gersbach's wife
June's mother
7. What was the profession of Madeleine's father?
Bootlegger
Salesman
Actor
Scholar
8. Where did Moses live as a child?
Russia
New York
Spain
Canada
9. To whom of the following does Herzog not write a letter?
God
The president of the United States
His mother
His dog
10. What is Gersbach's first name?
George
Jonah
Valentine
Moses
11. Where does Madeleine live?
The Berkshires
Chicago
New York
Canada
12. Who helped Valentine find a job in Chicago?
Madeleine
Phoebe
June
Moses
13. What is Moses' cultural background?
Russian Jewish
American Gentile
Canadian Christian
New Yorker Protestant
14. Why is Lucas Asphalter currently depressed?
Because he had to move from his homeland
Because he hates New York
Because his monkey died
Because he is recently divorced
15. How old is Moses?
He is in his forties
The reader is never told his age
He is in his sixties
He is in his early twenties
16. What is the title of Moses's one published book?
The Life of Thoreau
The Romantics
Romanticism and Christianity
The State of Nature in the 17th and 18th Century English and French Political Philosophy
17. From whom is Moses running away when he decides to go to Martha's Vineyard?
Ramona
Madeleine
His father
His children
18. Who is Tennie?
Moses' mother
Moses' sister
Will's wife
Madeleine's mother
19. Who is Jonah Herzog?
Moses' brother
Moses' son
Moses' father
Moses' friend
20. Who is George Hoberly?
Ramona's ex-boyfriend
Moses' best friend
Valentine's rival
Ramona's husband
21. Whose house does Moses visit first in Chicago?
His
The house of his best friend Lucas
Valentine's
Phoebe's
22. What does Herzog take from his father's desk?
His father's old watch
His father's pen
His father's pistol
A letter he had written to his father
23. What happens on the day that Moses takes his daughter to the aquarium?
He gets into a fistfight with Gersbach
He points his gun at Madeleine
He watches Gersbach bathe his daughter
He gets into a car accident
24. What had Moses intended to do with the gun?
Kill Madeleine and Gersbach
Kill himself
Kill June
Nothing—he merely wanted it for sentimental reasons
25. Where does Moses end up at the end of the novel?
In New York City
Back in the Berkshires
Living with Ramona
In a hospital
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