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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. Whom does Damaso hit?
(a) The traveling salesman.
(b) Roque.
(c) Ana.
(d) The prostitute.

2. To whom does Father Anthony Isabel give the offering?
(a) The traveling boy.
(b) The birds.
(c) Rebecca.
(d) The devil.

3. Whom does the narrator of "Blacamán" frequently resurrect?
(a) Houdini.
(b) Pelayo.
(c) Blacamán the Bad.
(d) Lazarus.

4. Where did Onésimo Sánchez go to university?
(a) University of Santiago.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Göttingen.

5. What language does Ulises's mother speak?
(a) Dutch.
(b) Mayan.
(c) English.
(d) Guajiro.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Onésimo Sánchez's sign?

2. In "A Very Old Man," what does Elisenda think the old man is at first?

3. What device kills pain in "Blacamán"?

4. What is Rebecca's servant's name?

5. Where do José Montiel's daughters live?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the villagers think of José Montiel, and why?

2. Why does Mina make roses?

3. Explain how the grandmother of "The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother" dies.

4. Describe some of the people who come to Big Mama's funeral.

5. Describe what Mr. Herbert and Tobías find to eat in "The Sea of Lost Time."

6. According to Jacob's wife, what is the significance of the smell in "The Sea of Lost Time"?

7. Describe what happens when the mother of the protagonist of "The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship" gets a new chair.

8. Describe Balthazar's cage.

9. Why is the senator thinking about death in "Death Constant Beyond Love"?

10. Why do the missionaries kidnap Eréndira, and what do they do with her?

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