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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Horacio do when Maga starts crying in Chapter 12?
(a) He draws on the wall.
(b) He drinks Cana.
(c) He holds Babs.
(d) He goes to sleep.

2. In Chapter 74, Morelli says that the true nonconformist is only concerned with what to things?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Minutia and grand ideas.
(c) Freedom is self and freedom of society.
(d) Life and death.

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

4. In Chapter 84, which character does Horacio mention is gravely ill?
(a) Rocamadour.
(b) Etienne.
(c) Berthe Trepat.
(d) Pola.

5. What modern form of execution is described in Chapter 114?
(a) Electric chair.
(b) Lethal injection.
(c) Gas chamber.
(d) Firing squad.

6. Who is not with the group that walks to the listening session in Chapter 9?
(a) Etienne.
(b) Perico.
(c) La Maga.
(d) Ossip.

7. In Chapter 62, Morelli says he has done away with what in his characters?
(a) Dialogue.
(b) Objectives.
(c) Psychological reasoning.
(d) Back-stories.

8. Who arrives with news of Guy Monod's suicide attempt in Chapter 28?
(a) Wong.
(b) Perico.
(c) Babs and Ronald.
(d) Etienne.

9. What does Horacio admit to La Maga in Chapter 20?
(a) He thinks she is an idiot.
(b) He has another lover.
(c) He is returning to Argentina.
(d) He suspects her of seeing Ossip.

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

11. Who is Valentin?
(a) Horacio's typist.
(b) Ossip's father.
(c) Maga's landlord.
(d) Berthe's friend.

12. Why does Rocamadour move in with Maga and Horacio in Chapter 19?
(a) He must attend school.
(b) The old woman in the country dies.
(c) He has a bad fever.
(d) Maga misses him.

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

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

15. What toy is Horacio looking at when he sees La Maga in his memory of Chapter 1?
(a) A jack in the box.
(b) A box of toy soldiers.
(c) A stuffed monkey.
(d) A toy train.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Berthe Trepat respond to Horacio's offer of a hotel at the end of Chapter 23?

2. On what abstract idea does Horacio ruminate for most of Chapter 3?

3. Who is Rocamadour?

4. On what subject does Horatio privately expound at the end of Chapter 17?

5. What does the old man who lives above La Maga do that annoys her?

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