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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has been offered to past political criminals?
(a) Amnesty.
(b) A reduced sentence for snitching.
(c) The opportunity to commit suicide instead of being hanged.
(d) Community service instead of prison.

2. What do the two men jest about as they say goodnight.
(a) About whether Paulina will know a strange man is sleeping in the house.
(b) Not sharing toothbrushes.
(c) Finding the jack in the morning.
(d) Who will be exposed as former torturers.

3. What does Paulina call Roberto?
(a) Dr. Hernandez.
(b) Dr. Miranda.
(c) Mr. Lopez.
(d) A bastard.

4. When will Paulina remove Roberto's gag?
(a) When Roberto is ready to confess.
(b) When Gerardo is awake.
(c) She is not willing to ever remove the gag.
(d) When she is ready to shoot Roberto so she can hear him beg for his life.

5. What does the character in #1's answer grab when hearing a car?
(a) A pair of binoculars.
(b) The telephone.
(c) Dinner out of the oven.
(d) A gun.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Paulina feel about the possibility of these people going to trial?

2. What is Roberto's attitude about Gerardo's upcoming role on the commission?

3. After Paulina is gone, how does the stage appear?

4. To what does Paulina have an aversion?

5. Who does Paulina blame for her not finishing school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gerardo tell Paulina and who is at the door?

2. Why was the doctor involved with torture?

3. What kind of position has Gerardo been offered and what does he say about it?

4. Where does the last Scene open?

5. What do Gerardo and Paulina do when Schubert's Death and the Maiden begins?

6. What does Roberto finally say is his real purpose for stopping?

7. How is Gerardo acting when he comes in the house?

8. What is Gerard doing with Paulina on the patio at the beginning of Act 3, Scene 1, that she had started before and what interrupted them before?

9. What does Gerardo say when Paulina asks who was in the car?

10. What does Gerardo and Paulina talk about when they go outside?

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