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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who offers to read?
(a) Marela.
(b) Conchita.
(c) Palomo.
(d) Ofelia.

2. What is Karenin going to do in the last portion being read?
(a) Write a letter to his wife.
(b) Kill his wife's lover.
(c) Start a new life in a new city.
(d) Start a duel.

3. Which character is not toasting before the party begins?
(a) Palomo.
(b) Juan Julian.
(c) Ofelia.
(d) Santiago.

4. What does Santiago say happens to Americans when they drink?
(a) They are unable to think.
(b) They become socialists.
(c) They complete no work.
(d) They commit crimes.

5. Why does Marela believe the living must do?
(a) Follow all superstitions.
(b) Take all possible precautions.
(c) Look after the dead.
(d) Support each other in pain.

6. Why does Juan Julian believe Anna fell in with Vronsky?
(a) She needed to feel love.
(b) She wanted to hurt her husband.
(c) She was weak and helpless.
(d) She needed to rediscover herself as a woman.

7. What happens to Juan Julian?
(a) He asks Conchita to go away with him.
(b) He quits and leaves.
(c) He is shot.
(d) He has a heart attack.

8. What does Ofelia complain about?
(a) Constant crying.
(b) Not knowing the ending of the book.
(c) Silence.
(d) Marela's coat.

9. What does Conchita suggest she and Juan Julian do as they have sex?
(a) Drift apart.
(b) Talk and soothe.
(c) Exchange roles.
(d) Become selfish.

10. What does Juan Julian say that the tradition of reading to the workers goes back to?
(a) Indian's influence over the in habitants.
(b) Ponce de Leon's travels in Florida and Cuba.
(c) Translating sacred words of dieties to common folk.
(d) Spainards introducing new religion.

11. Which of the following does Conchita not show as she talks to Palomo?
(a) Excitement
(b) Confusion.
(c) Repetance.
(d) Shame.

12. What type of liability is discussed in regard to the lectors?
(a) Physical.
(b) Productive.
(c) Social.
(d) Economic.

13. What does Juan Julian decline to say?
(a) Why Anna fell in with Vronsky.
(b) Why Karenin did not commit murder.
(c) What he does with Conchita.
(d) Which character he personally identifies with.

14. Who reaches out to touch the lector as he is dying?
(a) Marela.
(b) Conchita.
(c) Chechy.
(d) Palomo.

15. What does Palomo need?
(a) A copy of the book.
(b) A few of the new cigars.
(c) Keys to the safe.
(d) The books.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Conchita and Juan Julian separate quickly?

2. What does writing Juan Julian's name on the piece of paper and then placing it where it is suggested supposedly do that for him?

3. What is the single topic of act 2 scene 2?

4. What is odd about Marela?

5. Who interrupts the discussion between Juan Julian, Chechy and Palomo?

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