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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character offers a rambling defense of Morelli's methods in Chapter 99?
(a) Babs.
(b) Horacio.
(c) Etienne.
(d) Ossip.

2. What nickname does Horacio give Pola in Chapter 92?
(a) Blanca.
(b) Poor Rich Girl.
(c) Little Hands.
(d) Pola Paris.

3. Who makes a speech about it being a momentous night in Chapter 96?
(a) Ronald.
(b) Horacio.
(c) Perico.
(d) Babs.

4. What Eastern tradition is Morelli drawing from in Chapter 95?
(a) I-Ching.
(b) Shintoism.
(c) Taoism.
(d) Zen Buddhism.

5. Where do Horacio and his sister decide to stay in the dream in Chapter 123?
(a) In the drawing room.
(b) In her bedroom.
(c) In a tool shed.
(d) In the garden.

6. What is significant about the hotel that Pola and Horacio go to in Chapter 92?
(a) It is the same one he took Maga to.
(b) It rents rooms by the hour.
(c) It is owned by her father.
(d) It is in the small town where Rocamadour lives.

7. In Chapter 80, to what does Horacio liken madness?
(a) A cancer.
(b) A love affair.
(c) A dream.
(d) A fever.

8. According to Ossip in Chapter 30, which member of the Club got belligerently drunk at Rocamadour's wake?
(a) Guy Monod.
(b) Maga.
(c) Perico.
(d) Ronald.

9. What do Talita and Traveler hear outside their window at the end of Chapter 45?
(a) A bird's call.
(b) Two lovers' arguing.
(c) Horacio singing.
(d) A car accident.

10. Why is Horacio terrified in his dream in Chapter 132?
(a) Ossip is making love to Maga.
(b) He has been banished from the cafes of Paris.
(c) He cannot find Maga.
(d) Pola has returned to him from the dead.

11. Why does Emanuele decide to perform oral sex on Horacio in Chapter 36?
(a) She is drunk.
(b) She wants to take revenge on her former lover.
(c) She is bored.
(d) She decides that he looks too sad.

12. In Chapter 122, what does Etienne suggest is at the heart of his recent vivid dreams?
(a) Guilt over Maga.
(b) Professional frustration.
(c) Sexual dissatisfaction.
(d) A need to move.

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

14. What absurdist writer is quoted in Chapter 145?
(a) Camus.
(b) Gombrowicz.
(c) Ionesco.
(d) Durrenmatt.

15. In Chapter 98, what does Horacio realize that Maga never needed to do?
(a) Read a book.
(b) Have someone to love.
(c) Justify her actions.
(d) Leave Montevideo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country does Horacio go to before arriving in Argentina?

2. What is the name of the international organization that Ceferino Piriz wants to create?

3. Which character gets trapped between two windows in Chapter 41?

4. What does Horacio spread on the ground to protect him from Traveler in Chapter 56?

5. What is the topic of the letter in the Observer in Chapter 146?

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