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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Juan Julian suggest Conchita do with her cutting?
(a) Give it to her husband.
(b) Bury it under a tree.
(c) Press it in a book.
(d) Tie it in a special ribbon.

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

5. What were Santiago and Chechy doing?
(a) Reading.
(b) Smoking.
(c) Eating.
(d) Drinking.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is an accurate description of the job of lector?

3. What does Marela eventually do?

4. Why does Chechy resent lectors?

5. Which of the following characters was the old lector?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Juan Julian reveal when Conchita asks him why he chose to read Anna Karenina?

2. How does Conchita describe the experience of making love with Juan Julian?

3. What happens when Marela stays behind alone with Juan Julian?

4. What are Chechy and Ofelia arguing about?

5. What information did the women have about the new lector?

6. What and why does Santiago carve something into the sole of his half-brother's shoe?

7. What happens that causes Santiago and Ofelia to communicate with each other?

8. What do Chechy and Palomo question Juan Julian about?

9. What do Ofelia and her daughters discuss after Chechy leaves?

10. How is Juan Julian killed?

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