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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. What does Maga tell Horacio when he leaves her flat at the end of Chapter 20?
(a) Bring milk back for Rocomadour.
(b) She still loves him.
(c) Not to return.
(d) She is going to see Ossip.

2. Who is playing in Chapter 13?
(a) Satchmo.
(b) Miles Davis.
(c) Bessie Coleman.
(d) John Coltrane.

3. In Chapter 12, La Maga begins to cry remembering who?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her first lover.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Rocamadour.

4. In Chapter 6, Horacio is amazed by La Maga's disdain for what?
(a) Planning.
(b) Sentiment.
(c) Him.
(d) Calculation.

5. How does the point of view change in Chapter 3?
(a) It switches from Maga to Horacio.
(b) It switches from Horacio to Maga.
(c) It becomes first person.
(d) It becomes third person.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 65 is a dossier of which Serpent Club member?

2. Over time, what does La Maga fantasize Horacio will do during sex?

3. Who is Rocamadour?

4. Why is Pola dying in Chapter 27?

5. What political movement is Etienne working with in Chapter 90?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are La Maga and Horacio different?

2. What awful event does Maga describe in Chapter 15?

3. Describe Ossip Gregorovius.

4. When does Chapter 7 appear to take place, and why?

5. Why does Horacio choose not to help Etienne in Chapter 90?

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

7. How does Wong's torture photos affect Horatio's mood for the worse?

8. What is Rocamadour's place in La Maga and Horacio's relationship?

9. What point regarding observation does Horacio make in Chapter 84?

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

(see the answer keys)

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