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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, From the Other Side: Chapters 6, 7, 8, 93, 68.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approximately how old is Horacio Oliveira?
(a) Twenties.
(b) Fifties.
(c) Thirties.
(d) Forties.

2. In Chapter 2, what does Horacio say would be as easy as writing a story about La Maga?
(a) Swimming in ice.
(b) Climbing the wind.
(c) Making a sculture out of water.
(d) Making a doll out of bread.

3. In Chapter 6, Horacio is amazed by La Maga's disdain for what?
(a) Calculation.
(b) Planning.
(c) Him.
(d) Sentiment.

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

5. What does one vendor in Chapter 8 warn Horacio and Maga will kill his fish?
(a) Cold water.
(b) Larger fish.
(c) Loneliness.
(d) Hot weather.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what season do Maga and Horacio meet?

2. What is Horacio's philosophical goal in Paris?

3. Who is the narrator of Chapter 93?

4. In Chapter 74, Morelli says that the true nonconformist is only concerned with what to things?

5. In Chapter 71, Morelli argues that man can achieve nothing by looking to where?

(see the answer key)

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