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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Palomo long for?
(a) Life beyond the factory.
(b) Material success.
(c) An affair.
(d) A husband for Marela.

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

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

4. Who witnesses what goes on between Conchita and Juan Julian?
(a) Chechy.
(b) Marela.
(c) Palomo.
(d) Ofelia.

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

6. What does Levin's efforts to dissuade Anna's brother from selling off his ancestral land make Santiago realize?
(a) The extent of the errors he made with his half-brother.
(b) How much he truly loves Ofelia.
(c) The problems he faces in his life.
(d) The relationships with the factory workers.

7. How does Chechy feel about his role in the factory?
(a) He feels it is too big.
(b) He feels useless.
(c) He feels overwhelmed by it.
(d) He feels he needs more power.

8. What does Ofelia want to do, though she agrees to continue to talk about the book some more?
(a) Go to work.
(b) Go to bed.
(c) Go visit Santiago.
(d) Go to stay with her family.

9. What does Juan Julian say cities do to him?
(a) Enchange him.
(b) Enliven him.
(c) Surprise him.
(d) Asphyxiate him.

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

11. Why does Juan Julian reconsider the choice of book?
(a) He does not think the men will like the book.
(b) Chechy has told him he will leave if he reads that book.
(c) He thinks his choice will deepen Chechy's torment.
(d) Only Ofelia seems interested in that book.

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

13. What is the band on a cigar the symbol of?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Passion.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Love.

14. What does Chechy tell Ofelia about?
(a) Her husband's gambling debt.
(b) Her sister's indiscretion.
(c) His undying love for her.
(d) His hatred of the lector.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the ritual Conchita describes entail?

2. What does Conchita want to have for herself?

3. What does Marela think reading the book might accomplish?

4. What is the blue smoke from a cigar a source of?

5. How much does the first letter carved represent?

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