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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Rocamadour?
(a) Maga's father.
(b) Horacio's nephew.
(c) Maga's son.
(d) Horacio's brother.

2. Why is Pola dying in Chapter 27?
(a) She has typhus.
(b) She is run down by a car.
(c) She is very old.
(d) She has breast cancer.

3. In what season do Maga and Horacio meet?
(a) Summer.
(b) Winter.
(c) Spring.
(d) Autumn.

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

5. 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) Life and death.
(c) Love and hate.
(d) Minutia and grand ideas.

6. On what abstract idea does Horacio ruminate for most of Chapter 3?
(a) Choice.
(b) Need.
(c) Fate.
(d) Love.

7. What famous American litigator is quoted in Chapter 117?
(a) Clarence Darrow.
(b) John Jay.
(c) William Kunzler.
(d) William Jennings Bryant.

8. What does the narrator recall at the end of Chapter 93?
(a) Rocamadour's birth.
(b) Morelli's quest for publication.
(c) The fall of the Bastille.
(d) La Maga and Horcio's first date.

9. On what subject does Horatio privately expound at the end of Chapter 17?
(a) Sex.
(b) Morelli.
(c) War.
(d) Jazz.

10. Chapter 65 is a dossier of which Serpent Club member?
(a) Horacio.
(b) Ossip.
(c) Perico.
(d) Etienne.

11. According to Horacio, what is the only time that dialectical thought is useful?
(a) In times of calm.
(b) In school.
(c) In Socretes' time.
(d) After a great cataclysm.

12. What modern form of execution is described in Chapter 114?
(a) Lethal injection.
(b) Gas chamber.
(c) Firing squad.
(d) Electric chair.

13. How many audience members - including Horacio - are left in the auditorium at the end of the recital in Chapter 23?
(a) 12.
(b) 5.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

14. Why does Maga say she won't go to sleep in Chapter 26?
(a) Rocamadour is still sick.
(b) She is not tired.
(c) It would be rude to Ossip.
(d) Horacio will be back for his things.

15. In Chapter 4, what new information about herself does La Maga tell Horacio?
(a) She is from Uruguay.
(b) She came to Paris to find happiness.
(c) She does not love him.
(d) She has a child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What specific reason does Horacio have in Chapter 19 for believing Maga and Ossip are having an affair?

2. Why does Rocamadour move in with Maga and Horacio in Chapter 19?

3. Why is the Serpent Club often annoyed with La Maga?

4. In Chapter 93, what does La Maga fear is becoming an obsession for Horacio?

5. In Chapter 109, how does Morelli say he tells a character's story?

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