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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, From the Other Side: Chapters 100, 76, 101, 144, 92, 103, 108, 64.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Horacio meet Pola for the first time in Chapter 76?
(a) At the Cimetaire Pere Lachaisse.
(b) At Berthe Trepat's recital.
(c) At a cafe.
(d) In a cathedral.

2. What is Horacio doing in the dark in Chapter 28 when he discovers that Rocamadour has died?
(a) Getting an aspirin.
(b) Changing a record.
(c) Making mate.
(d) Lighting a cigarette.

3. In Chapter 74, Morelli says that the true nonconformist is only concerned with what to things?
(a) Freedom is self and freedom of society.
(b) Minutia and grand ideas.
(c) Life and death.
(d) Love and hate.

4. What is Horacio pasting on a lamp shade at the beginning of Chapter 84?
(a) Leaves.
(b) Buttons.
(c) Pages from the Bible.
(d) Notes.

5. According to La Maga at the end of Chapter 3, how does Horacio relate to life?
(a) He observes it like a painting.
(b) He lives it like a mushroom.
(c) He ignores it like a fly.
(d) He studies it like a text.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who eventually talks to the old man upstairs in Chapter 28?

2. On what abstract idea does Horacio ruminate for most of Chapter 3?

3. How does Berthe Trepat respond to Horacio's offer of a hotel at the end of Chapter 23?

4. Where are Horacio and La Maga making love at the beginning of Chapter 5?

5. What nickname does Horacio give Pola in Chapter 92?

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