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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are some of the things Paulina mentions that she endured during torture?
(a) Water-boarding.
(b) Electrocutions, rapes, near-drowning in feces.
(c) Eating raw pork.
(d) Handcuffed to a brick wall off the floor.

2. 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 not be so vulgar.
(c) To go check out the meaning of the phrase on the internet.
(d) To leave so he can continue to talk with Roberto.

3. What is the first thing Roberto says when Paulina removes the gag?
(a) Calls Paulina a bitch.
(b) Tells Paulina to go to hell.
(c) Says he is going to sue Paulina.
(d) Asks for water.

4. 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.

5. What does Gerardo say Paulina will do if Roberto does not confess?
(a) Cut out his tongue.
(b) Take him to the police.
(c) Have Gerardo work him over with a billy club.
(d) Kill him.

6. What does Paulina say about the way Roberto takes his coffee?
(a) He likes it with sugar.
(b) He doesn't like coffee.
(c) He takes it black.
(d) He only drinks coffee after a torture session.

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

8. Where is Paulina at the opening of this scene?
(a) At the police station.
(b) Out on the terrace.
(c) In bed asleep.
(d) At the neighbor's house.

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

10. What does Paulina do when Gerardo looks at her as the song commences?
(a) Looks over at Roberto and gives him an obscene sign.
(b) Crys.
(c) Turns to Gerardo and smiles.
(d) Nothing.

11. How many times does Gerardo say he and the woman had sex?
(a) They did not have sex.
(b) Five.
(c) Too numerous to count.
(d) One.

12. Where does Roberto say he has to go?
(a) To his office to get his papers for accuracy.
(b) To work.
(c) To the bathroom.
(d) To pick his wife and children up at the airport.

13. What song begins to play?
(a) Schubert's Death and the Maiden.
(b) Bach's Brandenburg Concerto.
(c) Ravel's Bolero.
(d) Beethoven's Fur Elise.

14. What does Paulina talk about in the opening of this scene?
(a) How she wants to move to the United States and get away from her past.
(b) Her inability to get a job after her time with Dr. Miranda.
(c) The horrors she suffered at the hands of Dr. Miranda.
(d) How she wants to forgive Dr. Miranda but cannot.

15. What does Paulina remind Gerardo about her torturers?
(a) That they were animals.
(b) That they had not been caught.
(c) That they repeatedly raped her.
(d) That they did offer her food and water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What composer does Paulina want to listen to with Gerardo?

2. Who enters as Paulina is paying for the candy?

3. What is uncertain about the arrival of Roberto?

4. What reason does Gerardo give in pleading with Roberto to indulge Paulina?

5. What has Paulina not shared with Gerardo in the past?

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