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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. By now, how long have they been at the house?
(a) For many, many weeks.
(b) A year.
(c) Five days.
(d) A day or two.
2. Who has Gen become attracted to (besides Roxane)?
(a) Carmen.
(b) Sam.
(c) Beatriz.
(d) Ruben.
3. What does this setting allow the hostages to feel like?
(a) They begin to feel like they could be anywhere in the world.
(b) They are enclosed and trapped.
(c) Very comfortable.
(d) They want to leave desperatley.
4. How has Ruben acted while held prisoner in his own home?
(a) Strange.
(b) Very depressed.
(c) He has become a gracious host.
(d) He has become hostile.
5. As time goes on, what happens to the hostages and terrorists?
(a) They will get very close to one another.
(b) The terrorists let their walls down and the hostages feels more comfortable.
(c) They grow to hate one another.
(d) The hostages start to make plans to take over the terrorists.
6. What is unique to this language?
(a) It is a local dialect.
(b) Many people know it.
(c) A lessner known language.
(d) Exclusively from the jungle.
7. How is the accompanist's declaration of love received by Roxane?
(a) It is sadly rejected.
(b) It is accepted.
(c) She pretends to accept it.
(d) She quietly denies it.
8. What might the terrorists be like?
(a) Subdued.
(b) Rough, crass and aggressive.
(c) Crazed with anger.
(d) Cruel and agressive.
9. What kind of love is everyone experiencing toward Roxane?
(a) A shared love.
(b) A competitive love.
(c) An exhuasted love.
(d) An angry love.
10. What does Gen begin to record about all the hostages?
(a) He records all of the different hostages by profession and income.
(b) Their voices so that they can send messages to their families.
(c) Written letters to their families.
(d) Their looks.
11. How does Roxane Cross feel about being the only woman forced to stay?
(a) She is outraged and upset.
(b) Sad and unfortunate.
(c) Desperate.
(d) Resigned.
12. What does Roxane start to appreciate about Mr. Hosokawa?
(a) He loves her more than the rest.
(b) He listens to her sing.
(c) He always knows what she wants or needs.
(d) He does not touch her.
13. What does the whole room begin to assume about their relationship (Roxane and the accompanist)?
(a) He will kill her if she does not return his love.
(b) She is his daughter.
(c) He is infatuated with her.
(d) They are lovers.
14. What type of role do you think that Father Arguedas will take on in the story?
(a) He will help all the hostages feel better.
(b) He will be a little too into confrontation.
(c) He will be aggressively trying to get nonbelievers to convert.
(d) Play an important mediator role during the hostage situation.
15. What is this called?
(a) Gasua.
(b) Guna.
(c) Goora.
(d) Garua.
Short Answer Questions
1. What have all the hostages been told to do?
2. What makes a hostage uprising impossible?
3. When the terrorists discover that the President is not at the performance, how do they feel?
4. What dichotomy between the setting and characters is established right away?
5. Right away, as the novel begins, what is clear to the reader concerning Roxane?
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