View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In this chapter, Arturo may have realized that:
(a) Success in his career is not what makes him ultimately happy
(b) It is much better living farther away from Hellfrick
(c) Camilla is his one, lifelong true love
(d) Having a car may be more trouble than it's worth

2. What does Arturo take from Camilla's car?
(a) Her driver's license
(b) Her waitress's apron
(c) Her hat
(d) Her wet clothes

3. How does Arturo try to help Vera?
(a) He shares about his own loneliness with her
(b) He asks her to dance with him
(c) He tells her it will all be over soon
(d) He gives her drink after drink

4. Arturo's novel will be published, but Camilla is now:
(a) Ill with tuberculosis
(b) Employed by a hotel
(c) Going her own way
(d) In a deep state of depression

5. One indication that everything has changed for Arturo is:
(a) He has to take a different room at the Alta Loma
(b) He has decided to live on the beach
(c) He has gotten rid of the marijuana
(d) Camilla is gone again

6. Hellfrick wants to borrow money from Arturo, this time for:
(a) Gin
(b) Cigarettes
(c) Milk
(d) Meat

7. What does Vera offer to do for Arturo when they become intimate?
(a) She offers to get them a drink
(b) She offers to sleep in the living room
(c) She offers to drive him home
(d) She offers to be Camilla

8. At the beach, Arturo hates the seagulls, and Camilla hates the:
(a) Kids
(b) Wind
(c) Sand
(d) Crabs

9. Camilla responds to Arturo's request to marry her:
(a) By trying to drown herself
(b) By hugging the bartenders who congratulate her
(c) By laughing and tearing up the telegram
(d) By weeping silently and leaving the restaurant

10. After some champagne, Arturo's attitude toward the prostitutes is that:
(a) He loves them for their misery
(b) He becomes lifelong friends with them
(c) He feels they are uglier than before
(d) He is repulsed by their nationalities

11. Arturo spends the night sleeping outside because:
(a) He is tired f sleeping in his own apartment
(b) It is too hot to sleep in his apartment
(c) He is waiting to see Camilla
(d) He is covinced Los Angeles is going to be destroyed

12. Arturo's responds to Vera's disfigured skin by:
(a) Telling her she is still lovely
(b) Offering her another drink
(c) Advising her to get surgery
(d) Leaving the room

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

14. Camilla's puppy, Willie, provides her with a sense of:
(a) Ways to stay busy
(b) Comfort and joy
(c) A sense of purpose
(d) Agitation and restlessness

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose poetry does Vera quote to Arturo?

2. When Arturo returns to Camilla's with a nightgown and reading material:

3. Arturo's initial response to Camilla's request is to:

4. What has changed for Arturo emotionally in this chapter?

5. The priest Arturo sees has an objection to the passage in Arturo's story dealing with:

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 579 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample