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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. Camilla's response to the milk Arturo gets for her is to:
(a) Throw it
(b) Ignore it
(c) Vomit
(d) Laugh
2. What is it about Vera that lingers in the room?
(a) Her negativity
(b) Her sadness
(c) Her scent
(d) Her sense of hope
3. Camilla responds to Arturo's request to marry her:
(a) By laughing and tearing up the telegram
(b) By weeping silently and leaving the restaurant
(c) By hugging the bartenders who congratulate her
(d) By trying to drown herself
4. When Arturo returns to Camilla's with a nightgown and reading material:
(a) Shrieks and alarms her neighbors
(b) Invites him in seductively
(c) Unlocks the door and goes back to bed
(d) Accepts the gifts and locks him out
5. Hellfrick wants to borrow money from Arturo, this time for:
(a) Gin
(b) Meat
(c) Cigarettes
(d) Milk
Short Answer Questions
1. When Vera appears in Arturo's room for the first time, he momentarily wants to:
2. What has changed for Arturo emotionally in this chapter?
3. Camilla's puppy, Willie, provides her with a sense of:
4. Why does Arturo write an angry essay about Catholicism?
5. Whose poetry does Vera quote to Arturo?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Arturo return to the Alta Loma hotel after Camilla disappears?
2. Does maturity has much to do with the constant friction between Arturo and Camilla?
3. What does Arturo have against Sammy? How does Sammy help Arturo?
4. Discuss Arturo's response to seeing Camilla laughing over his telegram by going dancing. Is his response predictable?
5. What does Fante accomplish with the character, Vera, and the relationship between her and Arturo?
6. Why does Arturo send the escaped Camilla money, after all of her unkindness toward him?
7. What is it that draws Camilla to the abusive Sammy?
8. Arturo finally gets a big break with the publishing of his new book about Vera. What happens to Camilla?
9. Arturo is feeling fairly good until Camilla shows up. What emotions does Camilla bring out in Arturo?
10. Why does Arturo swear off the Catholic church in this chapter?
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