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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what phrase does Paulina talk?
(a) "Two birds with one stone."
(b) "A penny saved is a penny earned."
(c) "Son of a bitch."
(d) "Birds of a feather flock together."

2. What does Paulina want of Gerardo?
(a) Him to stay with her.
(b) Him to assure her of his love.
(c) Him to kill Roberto.
(d) His to leave immediately.

3. What does Paulina say about the relationship between some doctors and the secret police?
(a) That the doctors pretended to help the police, but were spying for the rebels.
(b) That the doctors and the police were on different sides of the political situation.
(c) That the police used the doctors in their torture sessions.
(d) That the police believe doctors could not be trusted.

4. What did the woman with whom Gerardo had an affair claim?
(a) That she was with the secret police.
(b) That she could help him find Paulina.
(c) That she had also been tortured.
(d) That she was better for him than Paulina.

5. How has Gerardo thought of Paulina's emotional state over the years?
(a) Peaceful.
(b) In denial.
(c) Nervous.
(d) Joyous.

6. What do Gerardo and Paulina have with them on the terrace?
(a) A tape recorder.
(b) A camera.
(c) An impartial witness.
(d) Dinner.

7. What is Gerardo trying to get Paulina to tell him?
(a) Something she had started to tell him years before.
(b) That she loves him.
(c) That she wants to divorce him.
(d) Why they must kill Roberto.

8. Besides his voice, how else does Paulina know Roberta was one of her torturers?
(a) The way he says certain words with a foreign accent.
(b) The way he sniffs his nose constantly.
(c) The feel of his skin and his smell.
(d) The way he blinks his eyes constantly.

9. What does Paulina want to know about Gerardo's affair with this woman?
(a) If he loved her.
(b) How many times they had sex.
(c) If he wishes he was with her now.
(d) How they met.

10. Where are Gerardo and Roberto at the beginning of this scene?
(a) In the car.
(b) Sleeping in their respective bedrooms.
(c) They are not in this scene.
(d) Seated at the dining table.

11. What does Paulina want Gerardo to do on the Investigating Committee?
(a) Defend the truth.
(b) Lie so as to get the past over as quickly as possible.
(c) Be the voice of reason.
(d) She doesn't want him on the committee.

12. What has Paulina not shared with Gerardo in the past?
(a) That she is estranged from her parents.
(b) That she was fairly sure she knew who Dr. Miranda is.
(c) The fact that she had been a medical student.
(d) Very much about her experiences while being tortured.

13. What does Gerardo ask of Paulina as she is talking about the above phrase?
(a) To stop being irrelevant to the task at hand.
(b) To go check out the meaning of the phrase on the internet.
(c) To leave so he can continue to talk with Roberto.
(d) To not be so vulgar.

14. Who does Roberto condemn?
(a) Paulina.
(b) His adulterous wife.
(c) Himself.
(d) Gerardo.

15. Who does Paulina meet after three days of captivity?
(a) The head of the Secret Police.
(b) Dr. Miranda.
(c) Gerardo.
(d) Roberto.

Short Answer Questions

1. What song begins to play when Paulina tells her story?

2. What does Paulina do when she walks away from Gerardo?

3. What is the first thing Roberto says when Paulina removes the gag?

4. What is Paulina's relationship with her parents like?

5. What does Gerardo imply that Roberto has done?

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