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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 2, From This Side: Chapters 129, 139, 133, 140, 139, 127, (55), 56, 135, 63, 88, 72, 77, 131, 58 ....

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Ossip in Chapter 26, what is Paris?
(a) A cesspool.
(b) Heaven.
(c) The new Babylon.
(d) A metaphor.

2. In Chapter 16, who joins Horacio in mocking Maga's story?
(a) Etienne.
(b) Wong.
(c) Ronald.
(d) Perico.

3. What absurdist writer is quoted in Chapter 145?
(a) Durrenmatt.
(b) Gombrowicz.
(c) Ionesco.
(d) Camus.

4. What is significant about the hotel that Pola and Horacio go to in Chapter 92?
(a) It is owned by her father.
(b) It is in the small town where Rocamadour lives.
(c) It is the same one he took Maga to.
(d) It rents rooms by the hour.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following names does not appear on Morelli's list of acknowledgments in Chapter 60?

2. What request do many of the inmates have as they sign their names in Chapter 51?

3. What modern form of execution is described in Chapter 114?

4. How does Ossip describe himself in Chapter 24?

5. Which two characters attempt to analyze Maga in Chapter 142?

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