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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to Roberto after he is tied up at Paulina and Gerardo's home?
(a) The couple kills him.
(b) The couple forgives him and they eventually become friends.
(c) He is beaten badly and left on the steps of the hospital.
(d) His fate is not mentioned.

3. What announces the resumption of the concert?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A voice over the loud speaker.
(c) The dimming of the lights.
(d) A bell.

4. What interrupted Paulina from telling this something years ago?
(a) An air raid.
(b) A woman whom Gerardo had been sleeping with while Paulina was imprisoned.
(c) The baby crying and needing attention.
(d) The police arresting Paulina.

5. What does Roberto state about the situation in question #126.
(a) That it was not true.
(b) That it was a patriotic thing the doctors did.
(c) That the doctors were forced into the situation.
(d) That it had been investigated by the medical association.

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

7. Who enters as Paulina is paying for the candy?
(a) Her son.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Roberto.
(d) Gerardo.

8. What does Gerardo say he is in favor of now?
(a) Raping Roberto.
(b) Killing Roberto.
(c) Letting Roberto go without the confession.
(d) An eye for an eye retaliation.

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

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

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

12. Where is Paulina looking when the stage goes dark?
(a) At Roberto.
(b) At Gerardo.
(c) At her hands.
(d) In a mirror.

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

14. What is uncertain about the arrival of Roberto?
(a) He was in prison, so he must have escaped.
(b) He has dyed his hair and had a nose job, so it's not certain if that is really Roberto.
(c) Whether he is actually there or if Paulina is imaging it.
(d) Roberto has a twin brother and it may be the twin and not Roberto.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Gerardo and Paulina have with them on the terrace?

2. Where does this scene open?

3. What does Paulina want Gerardo to do on the Investigating Committee?

4. What song begins to play?

5. What is Roberto's situation?

(see the answer keys)

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