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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the Times of London article of Chapter 130, what new invention is injuring boys?
(a) The wrist-watch.
(b) The air gun.
(c) The zipper.
(d) The bicycle.

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

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

5. Why is the Serpent Club often annoyed with La Maga?
(a) She does not know the texts they discuss.
(b) She dozes off during their debates.
(c) She is keeping Horacio away from them.
(d) Her English and French are poor.

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

7. What specific reason does Horacio have in Chapter 19 for believing Maga and Ossip are having an affair?
(a) Ossip gave her a necklace.
(b) Ossip is always hanging around her flat.
(c) Rocamadour likes Ossip more.
(d) Magasays Ossip's name in her sleep.

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

9. Why is Pola dying in Chapter 27?
(a) She has typhus.
(b) She is run down by a car.
(c) She is very old.
(d) She has breast cancer.

10. How does the point of view change in Chapter 3?
(a) It becomes first person.
(b) It switches from Maga to Horacio.
(c) It switches from Horacio to Maga.
(d) It becomes third person.

11. On what subject does Horatio privately expound at the end of Chapter 17?
(a) Jazz.
(b) War.
(c) Sex.
(d) Morelli.

12. Between which two disciplines do Etienne and Horacio argue regarding conveyance of truth in Chapter 9?
(a) Music and literature.
(b) Art and literature.
(c) Art and philosophy.
(d) Philosophy and music.

13. What mythical creature do Maga and Horacio playfully turn each other into in Chapter 7?
(a) A centaur.
(b) A hydra.
(c) A satyr.
(d) A cyclops.

14. Why can't Horacio leave Berthe Trepat as he walks her home in Chapter 23?
(a) He does not know the neighborhood.
(b) She has his wallet.
(c) She is threatening to kill herself.
(d) She is clinging to his arm.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word terrifies Horacio in Chapter 93?

2. Approximately how old is Horacio Oliveira?

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

4. Which theatre theorist is quoted in Chapter 128?

5. According to Horacio, what is the only time that dialectical thought is useful?

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