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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, From the Other Side: Chapters 100, 76, 101, 144, 92, 103, 108, 64.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In whose flat does the jazz listening session of this section take place?
(a) Wong's.
(b) Ossip's.
(c) Ronald and Bab's.
(d) Horacio's.

2. Why can't Horacio leave Berthe Trepat as he walks her home in Chapter 23?
(a) She is threatening to kill herself.
(b) He does not know the neighborhood.
(c) She has his wallet.
(d) She is clinging to his arm.

3. What does Pola wonder as she and Horacio make love in Chapter 101?
(a) What he does when thy are not together.
(b) How he makes love to Maga.
(c) Why she has been feeling ill.
(d) How she can end their affair.

4. By what controversial French thinker is the quote is Chapter 136?
(a) Charles de Gaulle.
(b) The Marquis de Sade.
(c) Jean Dubuffet.
(d) George Bataille.

5. In Chapter 4, what new information about herself does La Maga tell Horacio?
(a) She has a child.
(b) She is from Uruguay.
(c) She came to Paris to find happiness.
(d) She does not love him.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to La Maga at the end of Chapter 3, how does Horacio relate to life?

2. In Chapter 92, where do Pola and Horacio have their second tryst?

3. What is the profession of the man who is hit by a car in Chapter 21?

4. According to Pola in Chapter 64, what happens to everything Horacio touches?

5. Over time, what does La Maga fantasize Horacio will do during sex?

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