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

2. On what abstract idea does Horacio ruminate for most of Chapter 3?
(a) Need.
(b) Fate.
(c) Choice.
(d) Love.

3. 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.

4. What is Horacio's philosophical goal in Paris?
(a) Disproving Hegel.
(b) Discovering a unifying force in life.
(c) Living a free existence.
(d) Showing that there is no single dialectic.

5. 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 ignores it like a fly.
(c) He lives it like a mushroom.
(d) He studies it like a text.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word terrifies Horacio in Chapter 93?

2. What unfortunate event has recently happened to Guy Monod in Chapter 9?

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

4. In Chapter 12, La Maga begins to cry remembering who?

5. In Chapter 93, what does La Maga fear is becoming an obsession for Horacio?

(see the answer key)

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