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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What area of Paris is Horacio searching for La Maga in Chapter 1?
(a) Montparnasse.
(b) Champs d'Elysee.
(c) Montmartre.
(d) Ponts des Arts.

2. Where does Chapter 143 take place?
(a) Montevideo.
(b) Buenos Aires.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

3. Why do Horatio and Maga keep their meeting plans vague?
(a) They want to keep their relationship casual.
(b) They don't want either person to be late.
(c) They want to keep open the chance of missing each other.
(d) They never leave each other for more than an hour.

4. In Chapter 15, Horatio privately wonders whether his education has turned him into what?
(a) A prude.
(b) A cretin.
(c) An egotist.
(d) A fool.

5. Who is the narrator of Chapter 93?
(a) Ossip.
(b) Morelli.
(c) La Maga.
(d) Horacio.

6. Whose favorite Morelli quote is Chapter 97?
(a) Horacio's.
(b) Etienne's.
(c) Ossip's.
(d) Maga's.

7. In Chapter 17, what does Ossip tell Maga is Horacio's problem?
(a) He cannot process life.
(b) He does not know how to love.
(c) He is Argentinean.
(d) He gets drunk too often.

8. Which theatre theorist is quoted in Chapter 128?
(a) Beckett.
(b) Brook.
(c) Artaud.
(d) Tynan.

9. Where do Horatio and La Maga meet at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) A theatre.
(b) A park bench.
(c) Her flat.
(d) A cafe.

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

11. Which of the following characters stays with Maga at the end of Chapter 28?
(a) Ronald.
(b) Etienne.
(c) Ossip.
(d) Horacio.

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

13. Who eventually talks to the old man upstairs in Chapter 28?
(a) Etienne.
(b) Ossip.
(c) Horacio.
(d) Maga.

14. What form of horrific execution is shown by the pictures Wong produces in Chapter 14?
(a) Flaying.
(b) Public stoning.
(c) Death by a thousand cuts.
(d) Living surgery.

15. At the end of Chapter 24, what does Maga say she does not want to do with Rocamadour?
(a) Feed him.
(b) Hold him.
(c) Take him to a hospital.
(d) Send him back to the country.

Short Answer Questions

1. What traumatic event is related by Maga in Chapter 15?

2. According to Ossip in Chapter 26, what is Paris?

3. What is Horacio doing in the dark in Chapter 28 when he discovers that Rocamadour has died?

4. What mythical creature do Maga and Horacio playfully turn each other into in Chapter 7?

5. What information does Morelli want to leave blank for the story he plans in Chapter 115?

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