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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why didn't Guido want an office near the warehouse?
(a) He said they smelled badly.
(b) He said they were too expensive.
(c) He said they were too close to home.
(d) He didn't want his wife to drop by.

2. To what did the doctor attribute Zeno's problems?
(a) Being too stubborn.
(b) Hating himself.
(c) A chemical imbalance.
(d) Being in love with his mother and wanting to kill his father--oedipal complex.

3. How many months did Zeno spend away from the office in Chapter 5?
(a) Two months.
(b) Three months.
(c) Five months.
(d) One month.

4. What was the state of Carla's virtue before Zeno's affair with her?
(a) She'd been intimate with many men.
(b) She'd had one previous lover.
(c) She'd been uninterested in the opposite sex.
(d) She was a virgin.

5. Why does Zeno think Carmen screamed on the boat?
(a) Guido squeezed her.
(b) She was afraid of the dark.
(c) She was angry with Zeno.
(d) She caught a fish.

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

7. Who initially worked in the office with Zeno and Guido?
(a) Augusta.
(b) Guillio.
(c) Anna.
(d) Luciano.

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

9. Why did Guido pretend to commit suicide?
(a) To gain sympathy from his creditors.
(b) To convince Ada to give him money.
(c) To convince Carmen to stay with him.
(d) To convince Zeno to remain in the office.

10. Who caught Tacich's eye as a love interest?
(a) Zeno's daughter.
(b) Carmen.
(c) Augusta.
(d) Ada.

11. Where did Ada go to recover from her illness?
(a) To a sanatorium.
(b) To live with her mother.
(c) To her sister's house.
(d) To the family vacation home.

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

13. What does Zeno say he realized with horror after giving up treatment?
(a) He really did hate his father.
(b) He'd stopped chasing women, except for his wife.
(c) He craved cigars.
(d) He'd lost his focus in life.

14. Why didn't Copler learn of the relationship between Carla and Zeno?
(a) He died.
(b) He ended his friendship with Zeno and stopped helping Carla.
(c) Carla moved and didn't give hime her address.
(d) He moved away.

15. Why did Zeno continue with his psychoanalysis sessions after they became torture for him?
(a) He didn't want to lose money.
(b) He didn't want to hurt the doctor's feelings.
(c) He wanted to convince the doctor he was wrong.
(d) It was always hard for him to stop something he'd begun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Zeno think the first time Carla sang for him?

2. What did Zeno tire of doing on his honeymoon?

3. Who was Enrico Copler?

4. How does Zeno say Augusta changed his home?

5. What did Carla do with the first envelope of money Zeno offered her?

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