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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What request do many of the inmates have as they sign their names in Chapter 51?
(a) They want better food.
(b) They want Nurse Inez back.
(c) They want the hallways painted.
(d) They want the dog killed.

4. Where is Horacio at the very end of the first book?
(a) His flat.
(b) Under a bridge.
(c) A cafe.
(d) A police wagon.

5. According to Morelli in Chapter 94, what is happening to his work?
(a) It is flying into the atmosphere.
(b) It is rotting.
(c) It is flourishing.
(d) It is fermenting.

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

7. Which of the following is not a possibility for Maga's face that Ossip implies in Chapter 29?
(a) She is wandering the streets of Paris.
(b) She is in Montevideo.
(c) She went to the Netherlands.
(d) She committed suicide.

8. In Chapter 39, what does Horacio talk to Traveler about instead of Paris?
(a) Politics.
(b) Talita.
(c) Wine.
(d) Their childhood.

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

10. In Chapter 87, a number by what musician is discussed?
(a) Miles Davis.
(b) Satchmo.
(c) Cole Porter.
(d) Duke Ellington.

11. According to Pola in Chapter 64, what happens to everything Horacio touches?
(a) It turns evil.
(b) It becomes dull.
(c) It dies.
(d) It feels better.

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

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

14. What does Horacio assure Maga regarding Pola in Chapter 108?
(a) He does not care about her.
(b) Their affair.
(c) He does not know anyone named Pola.
(d) She does not affect his love for Maga.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two Serpent Club members appear incongruously in Chapter 102?

2. In Chapter 78, Horacio becomes a salesman of what?

3. In Chapter 31, what is the only thing that Horacio says he wants?

4. The commentator in Chapter 147 says that what curtails human freedom?

5. Who does Babs physically attack in Chapter 35?

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