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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following themes figures prominently in the final scene of act 1?
(a) Nature.
(b) God.
(c) Deception.
(d) Love.

2. Who do the two characters who are not speaking to each other use to help deliver barbs to each other?
(a) Palomo.
(b) Juan.
(c) Chechy.
(d) Marela.

3. What do Ofelia and her daughter's snipe about?
(a) Which passage was the most important.
(b) What they will say to Chechy.
(c) Who likes Juan more.
(d) Who is the better listener.

4. How do the women feel around Juan Julian?
(a) Polite.
(b) Excited.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Confident.

5. What does Juan Julian tell Conchita Tolstoy understands better than any other writers?
(a) Understands humanity.
(b) Explains differences.
(c) Describes love.
(d) Relates to others.

6. What is the lector's role in a Cuban cigar factory?
(a) To increse productivity.
(b) To educate and inform.
(c) To manange the plant.
(d) To calm the workers.

7. Where are Santiago and Chechy during act 1, scene 1?
(a) Lecture.
(b) Cigar factory.
(c) Card game.
(d) Cockfight.

8. How does Ofelia react to what Chechy tells him?
(a) She dismisses him.
(b) She cries.
(c) She becomes angry.
(d) She tells him to talk in private.

9. What does Santiago reveal he has been doing in secret?
(a) Working a second job.
(b) Paying Chechy back.
(c) Listening to the novel.
(d) Gambling.

10. Which two characters are not speaking to each other?
(a) Santiago and Ofelia.
(b) Juan and Santiago.
(c) Palomo and Conchita.
(d) Marela and Ofelia.

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

12. What are Marela and Conchita waiting for?
(a) New lector.
(b) More drinks.
(c) The new cocks.
(d) Their mother.

13. How do the factory workers respond to Juan's reading?
(a) Applause.
(b) Quiet awe.
(c) Boredom.
(d) Anger.

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

15. What does Juan Julian talk to Conchita and Marela about?
(a) Cities.
(b) Belief.
(c) Life.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was IT a euphemism in this act?

2. Why does Chechy resent lectors?

3. Which of the following terms is the best definition of a superstition?

4. Why doesn't Santiago want to face Chechy?

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

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