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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Don Jaime do before he refills his coffee and sits and waits?
(a) Sharpens his sword.
(b) Locks the doors.
(c) Unlocks his doors.
(d) Loads his gun.

2. What does the file mostly consist of?
(a) Photographs.
(b) Minute reports.
(c) Official letters.
(d) Plans of buildings.

3. Why does Campillo say he is surprised that Don Jaime survived the attack?
(a) He must have been tired.
(b) He knows only how to fence.
(c) It was dark in the room.
(d) He is old.

4. Why does Don Jaime say he didn't disclose the truth to the police?
(a) He was scared for his life.
(b) He was being blackmailed.
(c) He was worried about blackening Don Luis's name.
(d) He was in with Dona Adela.

5. What bad news does Don Jaime receive at the end of this section?
(a) He is a suspect in Luis's murder.
(b) The file can't be found.
(c) Dona Adela is dead.
(d) Carceles is dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dona Adela plead Don Jaime not to do?

2. What does Don Jaime vow to do in chapter eleven?

3. Which of Don Adela's employees are the police unable to find?

4. Who does Carceles think is talking to him instead of Don Jaime?

5. Who does Campillo say is the only link to the murders?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Campilo's opinion of Don Jaime and the way he has acted?

2. What can Don Jaime understand from the file?

3. Why did Dona Adela kill Don Luis?

4. What stops Don Jaime from feeling afraid?

5. What does Don Jaime see at the morgue?

6. What does the cafe owner tell Don Jaime about the current situation in Spain?

7. Why does Don Jaime ask the night watchman to send for a doctor?

8. Summarize this section.

9. What information does Campillo say he has about Dona Adela's death?

10. How does Carceles react to reading the file?

(see the answer keys)

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