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

2. Who was nicknamed the Gringo?
(a) Tomas.
(b) Henry.
(c) James.
(d) Carlitos.

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

4. What smell does Tomas associate with the Colonel?
(a) Gunpowder.
(b) Cigar smoke.
(c) Blood.
(d) Chalk.

5. Where does Isabel remember experiencing great freedom on a visit to America?
(a) At a big concert.
(b) At the NYU dorms.
(c) In Idaho.
(d) At the National Parks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pichuca tell Tomas he may have just before she dies?

2. Who is the Gringo doing a favor for in Chapter Five?

3. What does the Colonel tell Tomas he need never be with the Colonel?

4. What does the Colonel call Tomas?

5. What does Tomas initially study in college?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Tomas go back to Argentina in Part I after a decade out of the country?

2. In Chapter Eight, why does Isabel say she thinks she and Tomas are such good friends?

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

4. What does the Colonel tell Tomas when he says he does not recognize some of the scenery on their journey?

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

6. What does Isabel tell Tomas about her political activities in Chapter Nine?

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

8. How does Tomas's mother feel about him moving from La Plata to Buenos Aires?

9. What does Isabel ask Tomas in Chapter Three when he asks her if she knows what it would have meant to him to know she survived?

10. What does the Colonel tell Tomas is possible in his wanderings through the underworld?

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