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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, From the Other Side: Chapters 9, 104, 10, 65, 11, 136, 12, 106, 13, 115.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator recall at the end of Chapter 93?
(a) The fall of the Bastille.
(b) La Maga and Horcio's first date.
(c) Rocamadour's birth.
(d) Morelli's quest for publication.

2. In Chapter 7, what part of La Maga is Horacio sketching with his finger?
(a) Her eyes.
(b) Her mouth.
(c) Her hand.
(d) Her breast.

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

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

5. In Chapter 93, what does La Maga fear is becoming an obsession for Horacio?
(a) Morelli.
(b) Her.
(c) Dialectics.
(d) Parisian life.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Horacio in Chapter 2, who destroyed his philosophical quest?

2. Who is playing in Chapter 13?

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

4. What image does Horacio use in Chapter 73 to describe the meaninglessness of intellectual life in Paris?

5. In Chapter 84, which character does Horacio mention is gravely ill?

(see the answer key)

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