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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hellfrick helps Arturo:
(a) Figure out his next novel
(b) Identify his moral boundaries
(c) Decide not to drink alcohol
(d) Learn how to steal money for food

2. The escapee, Camilla, asks for money from Arturo through:
(a) Letters from various post offices
(b) Telegrams using an alias
(c) Midnight phone calls
(d) Notes slipped under his door

3. Arturo expresses his love for Camilla by:
(a) Writing her a letter
(b) Including her in his latest novel
(c) Writing a poem about her
(d) Sending her a telegram

4. The priest Arturo sees has an objection to the passage in Arturo's story dealing with:
(a) The Liturgy
(b) The Holy Sacrament
(c) The Catechism
(d) The Rosary

5. What refreshment does Vera bring to Arturo?
(a) Water
(b) Warm milk
(c) Gin
(d) Soda

6. When Arturo and Camilla go to the shooting gallery, she:
(a) Is attracted to others at the gallery
(b) Wishes Arturo would be more generous
(c) Is disgusted that Arturo cannot shoot well
(d) Is unhappy with her own performance

7. What does Vera think of Arturo's writing?
(a) It is brilliant
(b) It is no good
(c) It is mediocre
(d) She has not read it

8. When Arturo does something nice, he is often:
(a) Temporarily humbled
(b) Self-congratulatory
(c) Headed for another religious breakthrough
(d) Angry at himself

9. What is Vera's primary problem?
(a) She is overly confident
(b) She is lonely
(c) She has sexual problems
(d) She is unpleasant looking

10. After writing his attack on the Catholic church, Arturo:
(a) Mails it to his childhood priest
(b) Mails it to his mother
(c) Disposes of it
(d) Sends it to the Pope

11. When Arturo returns to Camilla's with a nightgown and reading material:
(a) Accepts the gifts and locks him out
(b) Shrieks and alarms her neighbors
(c) Invites him in seductively
(d) Unlocks the door and goes back to bed

12. Arturo decides to be nicer to Sammy because he realizes:
(a) Living is hard enough
(b) Sammy has been nice to him
(c) He will miss Sammy when he's gone
(d) He and Sammy have been friends a long time

13. Sammy is terminally ill with:
(a) Lung cancer
(b) Alcoholism
(c) A brain tumor
(d) Tuberculosis

14. Sammy tells Arturo that Mexican girls:
(a) Prefer men with disabilities
(b) Don't like to be treated like human beings
(c) Are attracted to men who are sensitive
(d) Are always trouble in a relationship

15. When Camilla and Arturo go to visit Sammy, Camilla becomes:
(a) Withdrawn
(b) Protective
(c) Subservient
(d) Dangerous

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Arturo escape from Vera at the bar?

2. How does the author tell us that Vera is an older woman?

3. Why does Arturo tell wild stories of his great heroism after the earthquake?

4. Arturo feels his novel will serve to:

5. Arturo's next story will be based on:

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