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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Paulina mention using to rape Roberto, implying that he had done the same to her.
(a) A stick.
(b) A flashlight.
(c) A police baton.
(d) A broom handle.

2. What alternative does Paulina offer Gerardo instead of his involvement?
(a) That he can leave and never come back.
(b) No alternative.
(c) That he can call the police and have her arrested.
(d) That he can sit in the bedroom and listen.

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

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

5. What does Paulina say when Gerardo asks if she intends to kill Roberto?
(a) Not unless Roberto tries to escape.
(b) Of course, after Roberto confesses.
(c) She has not decided yet.
(d) They didn't kill her, so that wouldn't be fair.

6. At first, what is the primary reason for the doctor's presence during torture?
(a) To make certain a woman isn't pregnant before shock torture.
(b) To heal the patient.
(c) To say how much physical abuse the prisoner can withstand without dying.
(d) To administer truth serum.

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

8. What was one thing that revolted Gerardo under the military regime?
(a) The many executions.
(b) That they dismissed the junta.
(c) The nationalization of the banks.
(d) False evidence against innocent people.

9. What is one possible symbolic meaning to this last scene?
(a) That the past is in the past and can no longer bother you in the present.
(b) That God is the Judge of all people.
(c) That if you can't kill someone, you should not tie them up and threaten them.
(d) That Roberto will always be at least figuratively hanging over Paulina and Gerardo's shoulders.

10. Roberto asks what of Gerardo?
(a) For a cigarette.
(b) For another cup of coffee.
(c) To set him free.
(d) What he supposedly did.

11. Why does Gerardo think he'll have to resign?
(a) Because he wants to kill Roberto.
(b) Because his wife is insane.
(c) Because the events here will be made public.
(d) Because he is ineffective.

12. What does Paulina do when she walks away from Gerardo?
(a) Goes and buys some candy.
(b) Meets up surriptitiously with her lover.
(c) Goes to the ladies room.
(d) Goes to hail a cab.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paulina talk about in the opening of this scene?

2. What announces the resumption of the concert?

3. Who does Paulina mention that upsets Roberto?

4. As Paulina persists in questioning Gerardo about the affair, how does he respond.

5. Who does Paulina meet after three days of captivity?

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