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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Horacio meet Pola for the first time in Chapter 76?
(a) In a cathedral.
(b) At Berthe Trepat's recital.
(c) At the Cimetaire Pere Lachaisse.
(d) At a cafe.

3. What does Horacio do between Chapters 56 and 135?
(a) He jumps from his window.
(b) He leaves Buenos Aires.
(c) He marries Gekrepten.
(d) He gets in a fight with Traveler.

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

5. In Chapter 92, where do Pola and Horacio have their second tryst?
(a) A hotel in Bern.
(b) Horacio's flat.
(c) Pola's flat.
(d) A park.

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

7. Why does Etienne get angry at Babs in Chapter 96?
(a) She won't stop talking.
(b) She thinks Jarry is a genius.
(c) She cannot find Morelli's manuscript.
(d) She throws out a rotten egg.

8. What is revolutionary about the novel Morelli is writing in Chapter 154?
(a) It is over 4,000 pages long.
(b) It can be read in any order.
(c) It is written in a made-up language.
(d) It contains no characters.

9. Who is Emanuele?
(a) Maga's best friend.
(b) A waitress at Horacio's favorite cafe.
(c) Pola's mother.
(d) A homeless woman.

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

11. What literary convention does Morelli decry in Chapter 112?
(a) Past tense.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Rhetoric.
(d) Punctuation.

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

13. What task is Horacio undertaking at the beginning of Chapter 41?
(a) Washing shirts.
(b) Meditating.
(c) Sanding the floor.
(d) Straightening nails.

14. What term does Horacio use to refer to his destined home is Chapter 36?
(a) Mitzvah.
(b) Jerusalem.
(c) Kibbutz.
(d) Shtetl.

15. In Chapter 57, what does Horacio say he is confused about?
(a) Right and wrong.
(b) Maga and Pola.
(c) Love and dependence.
(d) Dreams and waking.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 56, what does Traveler say he is surprised Horacio has not done?

3. What two items does Horacio asks Traveler for in Chapter 41?

4. What does Morelli give Horacio to take to the writer's flat in Chapter 154?

5. Why is Horacio terrified in his dream in Chapter 132?

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