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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the doctor think Zeno really felt about Giovanni?
(a) He thought Zeno really hated him.
(b) He thought Zeno regretted being bad good son-in-law.
(c) He thought Zeno loved Giovanni more than his father.
(d) He felt that Zeno was jealous of him.

2. How did Zeno react towards his daughter when she screamed too much?
(a) He screamed insults in her ear.
(b) He cried as well.
(c) He handed her to Augusta.
(d) He tenderly comforted her.

3. Whom did Augusta say Antonia resembled?
(a) Augusta's father.
(b) Ada.
(c) Augusta's aunt.
(d) Augusta's mother.

4. What did the doctor say about the effect of cigarette smoking on Zeno?
(a) It was an excuse for wrong doing.
(b) It did not hurt him at all.
(c) It was poisoning his blood.
(d) It was damaging his lungs.

5. Who was the fifth addition to the office Zeno shared with Guido?
(a) Olivi's son.
(b) Carmen.
(c) Zeno's son.
(d) Carlos.

6. From which of the following people did the doctor solicit information about Guido: Carmen, Augusta, or Luciano?
(a) Luciano.
(b) None of them.
(c) Carmen.
(d) Augusta.

7. What did Ada ask Zeno to promise before she left for the sanatorium?
(a) To care for her children.
(b) To prevent Guido from cheating.
(c) To take care of Guido.
(d) To be faithful to Augusta.

8. Who was Carla Gerco?
(a) A stenographer.
(b) A maid.
(c) A singer Copler was helping to support.
(d) Augusta's friend.

9. With whom does Zeno say he returned to Trieste after being separated from his family?
(a) Carmen.
(b) No one.
(c) Carla.
(d) A new mistress.

10. What change did Zeno and Augusta disagree about?
(a) Adding a den.
(b) Keeping the study for Zeno.
(c) Adding a laundry.
(d) Adding a nursery.

11. What did the doctor think about Zeno's relationship with Guido?
(a) He continuously envied him.
(b) He came to regard him as a brother.
(c) He had never ceased disliking him.
(d) He loved him.

12. What surprised Zeno about Augusta?
(a) She stopped loving him.
(b) She was a good wife.
(c) She had a nasty temper.
(d) She was a good cook.

13. With whom did Carla live?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her mother and father.
(d) Her father.

14. Where did Copler get the money to provide for Carla's support?
(a) From his friends and other sympathetic people.
(b) From his father.
(c) From his financial advisor.
(d) From his own bank account.

15. How did Ada's illness make Augusta's family act towards Zeno?
(a) More affectionately.
(b) Cold.
(c) No differently.
(d) Guilty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Zeno decide to give up on psychoanalysis?

2. Where did Ada go to recover from her illness?

3. What effect did Zeno think his marriage had on him at first?

4. Which war begins at the end of this book?

5. In Chapter 4, what startling discovery did Zeno say he made?

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