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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which character in the story does Santiago identify with?
(a) Vronsky.
(b) Anna.
(c) Tolstoy.
(d) Levin.

4. Which of the following characters is a mother?
(a) Conchita.
(b) Ofelia.
(c) Marela.
(d) Teodoro.

5. What does Marela use to make sure the lector arrives?
(a) Sends letters.
(b) Uses a spell.
(c) Prays to God.
(d) Calls the ship captain.

6. Which of the following characters works late at the factory?
(a) Chechy.
(b) Conchita.
(c) Ofelia.
(d) Marela.

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

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

9. 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) Marela.
(d) Juan.

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

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

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

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

14. What letter does Santiago carve?
(a) I.
(b) S.
(c) O.
(d) T.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Juan Julian's family hiding from when he discovered books?

2. Who steps in to break up the clash?

3. Why does Santiago carve a letter?

4. Where does Santiago carve the letter?

5. What does Chechy tell Ofelia about?

(see the answer keys)

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