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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Roberto doing during the next part of the concert?
(a) Watching Paulina and Gerardo.
(b) Speaking with his wife.
(c) Watching the musicians.
(d) He does not come into the concert hall.

2. Who did Dr. Miranda used to quote?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Marx.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Nietzsche.

3. When Paulina returns to the living room, what does she do?
(a) Pistol whips Roberto for trying to escape.
(b) Says another line from her time of torture and runs her hands all over Roberto.
(c) Gives Roberto more water.
(d) Ask Roberto to forgive her.

4. 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 feel of his skin and his smell.
(c) The way he sniffs his nose constantly.
(d) The way he blinks his eyes constantly.

5. Where does this scene open?
(a) A concert hall.
(b) In the legislative building.
(c) At the police station.
(d) At a public park.

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

7. Who does Paulina mention that upsets Roberto?
(a) His sister.
(b) His mother.
(c) His wife.
(d) His children.

8. What does Paulina intend to do once Roberto begins talking?
(a) Call the police to hear him.
(b) Duct tape his mouth closed.
(c) Tortue him if he lies.
(d) Record his words.

9. How does Paulina want to honor Gerardo's caring of her?
(a) Buy him a year's worth of sessions with a massage therapist.
(b) Take him on a long cruise.
(c) Let him go back and have an affair with the other woman.
(d) Adopt a child and care for him in the same way.

10. Why is Gerardo being congratulated?
(a) For his birthday.
(b) For having such an incredible wife.
(c) For the release of an important paper.
(d) On the birth of his son.

11. What is the main thing Paulina wants from Roberto?
(a) A guarantee that he won't go to the police.
(b) An apology.
(c) An explanation as to why he hurt her.
(d) His written and signed confession in her hand.

12. What happens when Gerardo turns on the tape recorder?
(a) He prompts Paulina to tell her story.
(b) The tape breaks.
(c) He goes in and forces Roberto to speak into the microphone.
(d) They can't find the recorder.

13. What technique does Roberto think Paulina and Gerardo are using?
(a) Waterboarding.
(b) Sleep deprivation.
(c) Guilt induced confession.
(d) Good cop, bad cop.

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

15. How much time has elapsed since the last scene?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Several months.
(c) Two days.
(d) A week.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is uncertain about the arrival of Roberto?

2. What is Roberto's situation?

3. About what phrase does Paulina talk?

4. Where is Roberto at the opening of this scene?

5. What does Paulina asks Gerardo to do?

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