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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 does Tomas do with Isabel and then feel guilty about afterwards in Chapter Three?
(a) Takes her to see his own mother.
(b) Takes her to the cemetery.
(c) Takes her to visit the ocean and refuses to apologize to her.
(d) Has sex.

2. What does Isabel teach Flor how to do for the first time?
(a) Speak English.
(b) Juggle.
(c) Cook.
(d) Write her name.

3. How does Tomas remember Isabel's body?
(a) As being of average build.
(b) As being very thin.
(c) As being quite overweight.
(d) As being lush and curvaceous.

4. At the end of Chapter One, who is Tomas shocked to see outside the hospital?
(a) Nerea.
(b) The Colonel.
(c) Isabel.
(d) His mother.

5. Who does Tomas arrange for the Colonel to invite for dinner?
(a) Pichuca and Cecilia.
(b) Amy and Elizabeth.
(c) Cecilia and Nerea.
(d) Nerea and Isabel.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years does Tomas spend officially disappeared?

2. Who is the only housemate Tomas really ends up speaking to in Buenos Aires?

3. In Chapter Nine, what book does Tomas tell the Colonel he is behind in reading?

4. What story does Isabel tell Tomas about Gustavo in Chapter Three?

5. What does Tomas initially study in college?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Isabel take Tomas in Chapter Seven, on one of their first outings in Buenos Aires?

2. How does Tomas feel after having sex with Isabel in Chapter Three?

3. How does Pichuca's family respond when Tomas asks about Isabel in Chapter Four?

4. In Chapter Nine, what does Tomas do while sleeping at the Colonel's house that he later feels guilty about?

5. Who does Tomas see outside the hospital in Chapter Two that he is shocked to see, and why?

6. What does Isabel often call Tomas as a term of affection, and what does it mean?

7. What does Tomas do when he leaves Argentina in 1976 that damages his future relationships?

8. What does Pichuca tell Tomas he may have a chance at?

9. Where does Tomas first meet the Colonel when Tomas returns to Argentina after a long absence?

10. What does the Colonel tell Tomas about regret?

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