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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. Over time, what does La Maga fantasize Horacio will do during sex?
(a) Cry.
(b) Say he loves her.
(c) Kill her.
(d) Tie her up.

2. How does Horacio convince Maga to leave the flat so he can tell Ossip the child has died in Chapter 28?
(a) He tells her to talk to the old man upstairs.
(b) He tells her to get some sleep at his flat.
(c) He says he thinks he left the front door open.
(d) He asks her to pick up some cigarettes.

3. According to La Maga at the end of Chapter 3, how does Horacio relate to life?
(a) He observes it like a painting.
(b) He lives it like a mushroom.
(c) He studies it like a text.
(d) He ignores it like a fly.

4. Between which two disciplines do Etienne and Horacio argue regarding conveyance of truth in Chapter 9?
(a) Philosophy and music.
(b) Music and literature.
(c) Art and literature.
(d) Art and philosophy.

5. According to Horacio, what is the only time that dialectical thought is useful?
(a) After a great cataclysm.
(b) In school.
(c) In Socretes' time.
(d) In times of calm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rocamadour move in with Maga and Horacio in Chapter 19?

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

3. What does Horacio assure Maga regarding Pola in Chapter 108?

4. What is odd about the bread that Horacio cuts in his dream in Chapter 100?

5. Where does Horacio meet Pola for the first time in Chapter 76?

(see the answer key)

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