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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. Who eventually talks to the old man upstairs in Chapter 28?
(a) Horacio.
(b) Maga.
(c) Ossip.
(d) Etienne.

2. Over time, what does La Maga fantasize Horacio will do during sex?
(a) Cry.
(b) Tie her up.
(c) Say he loves her.
(d) Kill her.

3. In Chapter 74, Morelli says that the true nonconformist is only concerned with what to things?
(a) Life and death.
(b) Freedom is self and freedom of society.
(c) Minutia and grand ideas.
(d) Love and hate.

4. Which theatre theorist is quoted in Chapter 128?
(a) Tynan.
(b) Beckett.
(c) Brook.
(d) Artaud.

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

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. By what controversial French thinker is the quote is Chapter 136?

3. Why does Rocamadour move in with Maga and Horacio in Chapter 19?

4. What form of horrific execution is shown by the pictures Wong produces in Chapter 14?

5. According to La Maga at the end of Chapter 3, how does Horacio relate to life?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is the reader made aware of Rocamadour's death in Chapter 28?

4. How are La Maga and Horacio different?

5. What is Ossip's diagnosis of Horacio in Chapter 16?

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

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

8. What is Horacio doing in the Ponts des Arts in Chapter 1?

9. What event is taking place in this section?

10. What is the Club's Principle problem with the theories of Morelli, as stated in Chapter 141?

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