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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Horatio and Maga keep their meeting plans vague?
(a) They want to keep their relationship casual.
(b) They never leave each other for more than an hour.
(c) They want to keep open the chance of missing each other.
(d) They don't want either person to be late.

2. What unfortunate event has recently happened to Guy Monod in Chapter 9?
(a) He has lost his student visa.
(b) His mistress has left him.
(c) He has been evicted from his flat.
(d) He has been dianosed with syphilis.

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

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

5. What casual act of brutality does Ireneo commit in Chapter 120?
(a) He sets fire to a shanty in Montenegro.
(b) He kicks a dog.
(c) He beats up a crippled boy.
(d) He feeds a worm to a group of ants.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many audience members - including Horacio - are left in the auditorium at the end of the recital in Chapter 23?

2. What does Horacio admit to La Maga in Chapter 20?

3. In Chapter 12, La Maga begins to cry remembering who?

4. In Chapter 71, Morelli argues that man can achieve nothing by looking to where?

5. According to Ossip in Chapter 26, what is Paris?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Maga and Horacio so affected by the fish in Chapter 8?

2. How does Maga and Horacio's sex life become eerily unhealthy in Chapter 5?

3. In Chapter 26, what reason does Ossip offer for Horacio's leaving?

4. What is Maga doing when Horacio arrives in Chapter 28?

5. Why does Ossip apologize to Maga in Chapter 24?

6. How does Horacio meet Berthe Trepat?

7. How does the Serpent Club relate to La Maga?

8. In Chapter 115, what surrogate experience does Morelli describe?

9. Describe Ossip Gregorovius.

10. How does Horacio's state of mind change over the course of this section?

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