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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pola wonder as she and Horacio make love in Chapter 101?
(a) Why she has been feeling ill.
(b) What he does when thy are not together.
(c) How he makes love to Maga.
(d) How she can end their affair.

2. Which two characters arrive at Morelli's flat in Chapter 91?
(a) Guy Monod and Maga.
(b) Ronald and Babs.
(c) Etienne and Wong.
(d) Ossip and Horacio.

3. The commentator in Chapter 147 says that what curtails human freedom?
(a) Christian dialectics.
(b) Social mores.
(c) Communism.
(d) Marriage laws.

4. What two items does Horacio asks Traveler for in Chapter 41?
(a) Cana and eggs.
(b) Yerba and nails.
(c) Eggs and yerba.
(d) Nails and Cana.

5. What fear does Morelli express in Chapter 82?
(a) He is only perpetuating the dying realm of literature.
(b) He will die soon.
(c) He is out of ideas.
(d) No one respects him.

6. What group of people do Horacio and Etienne watch while they wait to see Morelli in Chapter 155?
(a) The doctors.
(b) The nurses.
(c) The patients.
(d) The other visitors.

7. Who joins Horacio in visiting the old writer at Necker Hospital in Chapter 155?
(a) Etienne and Perico.
(b) Etienne, Ossip, and Perico.
(c) Ossip and Ronald.
(d) Only Etienne.

8. Which of the following is not a topic upon which Morelli expounds in Chapter 154?
(a) Ezra Pound.
(b) Algeria.
(c) Chess.
(d) His own writing.

9. What is the name of the international organization that Ceferino Piriz wants to create?
(a) The Society of Nations.
(b) The League of Demcracies.
(c) The Peace Coalition.
(d) The Allied Powers.

10. In Chapter 78, Horacio becomes a salesman of what?
(a) Typewriters.
(b) Brandy.
(c) Encyclopedias.
(d) Gabardine.

11. What sin does Ossip accuse Horacio of in Chapter 31?
(a) Lust.
(b) Delusion.
(c) Ambition.
(d) Indifference.

12. What is the only information about the Club's journey to Morelli's flat included in Chapter 113?
(a) Directions and street numbers.
(b) Dialogue between them.
(c) Weather patterns in the area.
(d) Horacio's private expectations.

13. Who is Horacio thinking about in Chapter 48?
(a) Maga.
(b) Ossip.
(c) His mother.
(d) Berthe Trepat.

14. Which of the following is not among Talita's preferred reading materials?
(a) Clothing catalogues.
(b) Language books.
(c) Medical journals.
(d) Blashemous articles.

15. According to Gabio Basso in Chapter 148, the root of the word person originally meant what?
(a) Mask.
(b) Walk.
(c) One.
(d) Need.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Horacio meet Pola for the first time in Chapter 76?

2. What is significant about the hotel that Pola and Horacio go to in Chapter 92?

3. How do Horacio and Traveler pass long stretches of free time in the asylum in Chapter 52?

4. Where is Horacio at the very end of the first book?

5. What Eastern tradition is Morelli drawing from in Chapter 95?

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