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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Horacio doing in the dark in Chapter 28 when he discovers that Rocamadour has died?
(a) Changing a record.
(b) Lighting a cigarette.
(c) Making mate.
(d) Getting an aspirin.

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

3. Which philosopher does Horacio cite in his ruminations of Chapter 3?
(a) Hegel.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Hume.

4. What is the profession of the man who is hit by a car in Chapter 21?
(a) Priest.
(b) Day-laborer.
(c) Writer.
(d) Doctor.

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

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

7. In Chapter 141, the Club offers what complaint about Morelli as a theorist?
(a) He has never produced a full novel.
(b) He offers no new ideas to replace the old.
(c) He detests women.
(d) He dismisses all of the old canon.

8. Why does Maga say she won't go to sleep in Chapter 26?
(a) Rocamadour is still sick.
(b) Horacio will be back for his things.
(c) She is not tired.
(d) It would be rude to Ossip.

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

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

11. For what item do Maga and Horacio have in impromptu funeral in Chapter 1?
(a) A hat.
(b) A telephone.
(c) A gramophone.
(d) An umbrella.

12. How many pieces of the music recital in Chapter 23 are written by Berthe Trepat?
(a) None.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

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

14. Which of the following names does not appear on Morelli's list of acknowledgments in Chapter 60?
(a) Bunuel.
(b) Oliveira.
(c) Armstrong.
(d) Suzuki.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Times of London article of Chapter 130, what new invention is injuring boys?

2. Why can't Horacio leave Berthe Trepat as he walks her home in Chapter 23?

3. At the end of Chapter 24, what does Maga say she does not want to do with Rocamadour?

4. In Chapter 6, Horacio is amazed by La Maga's disdain for what?

5. What does Maga tell Horacio when he leaves her flat at the end of Chapter 20?

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