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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What information does Morelli want to leave blank for the story he plans in Chapter 115?
(a) The author's name.
(b) The protagonist's name.
(c) The setting.
(d) The verbs.

3. How many audience members - including Horacio - are left in the auditorium at the end of the recital in Chapter 23?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 1.

4. How does Berthe Trepat respond to Horacio's offer of a hotel at the end of Chapter 23?
(a) She slaps him.
(b) She wanders away, dazed.
(c) She kisses him.
(d) She politely declines.

5. What does the narrator recall at the end of Chapter 93?
(a) Morelli's quest for publication.
(b) The fall of the Bastille.
(c) La Maga and Horcio's first date.
(d) Rocamadour's birth.

6. Where are Horacio and La Maga making love at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) A hotel.
(b) Horacio's flat.
(c) Maga's flat.
(d) A park.

7. In Chapter 71, Morelli argues that man can achieve nothing by looking to where?
(a) Paris.
(b) The government.
(c) The past.
(d) Heaven.

8. According to Horacio, what is the only time that dialectical thought is useful?
(a) In times of calm.
(b) In Socretes' time.
(c) In school.
(d) After a great cataclysm.

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

10. Where is Guy Monod's mistress from?
(a) England.
(b) Russia.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Switzerland.

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

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

13. In Chapter 6, Horacio is amazed by La Maga's disdain for what?
(a) Him.
(b) Sentiment.
(c) Calculation.
(d) Planning.

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

15. According to La Maga at the end of Chapter 3, how does Horacio relate to life?
(a) He observes it like a painting.
(b) He ignores it like a fly.
(c) He lives it like a mushroom.
(d) He studies it like a text.

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 famous American litigator is quoted in Chapter 117?

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

5. In what season do Maga and Horacio meet?

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