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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Juan Julian doing at the end of act 1?
(a) Planning out the steps involved in the ritual.
(b) Talking to Conchita's husband.
(c) Stroking Conchita's hair and kissing her shoulder and lips.
(d) Reading from the book.

2. What does Juan Julian say the difference between the two places boils down to?
(a) Matter of light.
(b) Matter of water.
(c) Matter of time.
(d) Matter of age.

3. What is arriving during act 1, scene 1?
(a) Baby.
(b) Ship.
(c) Cigars.
(d) Chickens.

4. Why don't Anna and her husband get divorced?
(a) They are Roman Catholic.
(b) Her husband won't allow it.
(c) They continue to need each other.
(d) Her lover does not wish it.

5. What does Juan Julian say parks do to him?
(a) Enchant him.
(b) Surprise him.
(c) Enliven him.
(d) Asphyxiate him.

6. Who performs the burial for Conchita?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her son.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her husband.

7. Which of the following terms best describes how act 1 scene 5 opens?
(a) Climatic intervention.
(b) Soliloquy.
(c) Dramatic interlude.
(d) Opening dialoge.

8. Who steps in to break up the clash?
(a) Ofelia.
(b) Marela.
(c) Santiago.
(d) Chechy.

9. Which character clashes with Juan Julian in scene 2?
(a) Ofelia.
(b) Teodoro
(c) Chechy.
(d) Santiago.

10. Which character is newly arrived?
(a) Chechy.
(b) Santiago.
(c) Ofelia.
(d) Juan Julian.

11. Where is scene 2 set?
(a) Cock fight.
(b) Dock.
(c) Cigar factory.
(d) Ship.

12. What are often the sites where semi-pagan rituals are carried out?
(a) Parks.
(b) Houses.
(c) Trees.
(d) Cities.

13. What do the girls in the ritual bury beneath a tree?
(a) The cigar remnants.
(b) A flower.
(c) The hair cuttings.
(d) Ashes from a relative.

14. Which of the following descriptors best fits Chechy?
(a) Grumpy.
(b) Happy.
(c) Saddened.
(d) Relieved.

15. What keeps Santiago taking chances and losing at gambling?
(a) Pressure from his half-brother.
(b) One time he won big.
(c) Need to prove himself.
(d) Desire for a better life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the character of Vronsky fiercely dedicated to in the story?

2. Which of the following characters is taking care of the betting?

3. What do Ofelia and her daughters think about the choice of the novel?

4. What does Palomo long for?

5. What were Santiago and Chechy doing?

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