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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Juan Julian believe Anna fell in with Vronsky?
(a) She wanted to hurt her husband.
(b) She needed to rediscover herself as a woman.
(c) She needed to feel love.
(d) She was weak and helpless.

2. What does Palomo ask Conchita to show her?
(a) What she would like to do with her husband.
(b) How the new machine works.
(c) What the lector does to her.
(d) Where she goes with the lector.

3. What does Conchita suggest she and Juan Julian do as they have sex?
(a) Talk and soothe.
(b) Become selfish.
(c) Exchange roles.
(d) Drift apart.

4. What is odd about Marela?
(a) She is not crying.
(b) She is still wearing her coat.
(c) She doesn't talk anymore.
(d) She is hugging Juan Julian's dead body.

5. Conchita sees that she and Juan Julian are like what when they make love?
(a) Soul mates.
(b) Characters on a stage.
(c) One person.
(d) United against the world.

6. Where does Palomo ask his wife to show him what is done to her?
(a) Using the lector.
(b) On his body.
(c) At their home.
(d) In the factory.

7. Which of the following is a synonym for the term chides as used in the following sentence: Conchita chides Palomo about the behavior of lovers.
(a) Explains.
(b) Praises.
(c) Rebukes.
(d) Extends.

8. Which of the following is the best description of how Palomo feels as act 2 scene 2 opens?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Suspecting.
(c) Jealous.
(d) Angry.

9. What two things does Palomo want to know from Conchita?
(a) Where she meets her lover and what they do.
(b) If she is pregnant and why she denies having a lover.
(c) What the lector is reading and how she likes it.
(d) What happened to the new machine and how she feels about the lector.

10. Who does Conchita avoid contact with at the party?
(a) Juan Julian.
(b) Chechy.
(c) Palomo.
(d) Santiago.

11. Which character does not agree with Karenin?
(a) Marela.
(b) Palomo.
(c) Conchita.
(d) Chechy.

12. Who was Mildred?
(a) The factory owner.
(b) Chechy's wife.
(c) Palomo's lover.
(d) Juan Julian's sister.

13. What are Juan Julian and Conchita doing as Act 2 opens?
(a) Kissing.
(b) Making love.
(c) Reading from the novel.
(d) Talking.

14. What did Ofelia once sit for?
(a) A family portrait.
(b) A cigar label.
(c) A book cover.
(d) A jar of jelly.

15. What does Santiago say happens to Americans when they drink?
(a) They complete no work.
(b) They are unable to think.
(c) They commit crimes.
(d) They become socialists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ofelia complain about?

2. What argument does Chechy use to defend his purchase?

3. Which character is not toasting before the party begins?

4. What does Karenin want to do with Vronsky in the book?

5. What does Karenin decide killing a man to define a relationship with a woman is?

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