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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 is Chapter 47 supposed to be?
(a) A tape recording.
(b) A news story.
(c) A chapter of a Morelli novel.
(d) A letter.

2. Who joins Horacio in visiting the old writer at Necker Hospital in Chapter 155?
(a) Only Etienne.
(b) Etienne, Ossip, and Perico.
(c) Etienne and Perico.
(d) Ossip and Ronald.

3. In Chapter 80, to what does Horacio liken madness?
(a) A cancer.
(b) A dream.
(c) A fever.
(d) A love affair.

4. What part of Pola does Horacio kiss in Chapter 64?
(a) Her hand.
(b) Her foot.
(c) Her breast.
(d) Her lips.

5. What fear does Morelli express in Chapter 82?
(a) No one respects him.
(b) He is only perpetuating the dying realm of literature.
(c) He will die soon.
(d) He is out of ideas.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the topic of the letter in the Observer in Chapter 146?

3. What is significant about the hotel that Pola and Horacio go to in Chapter 92?

4. Which two characters arrive at Morelli's flat in Chapter 91?

5. What term does Horacio use to refer to his destined home is Chapter 36?

Short Essay Questions

1. Professionally, what changes for Traveler, Horacio and Talita in this section?

2. How is the prose style of Chapter 34 unusual?

3. Describe Manolo and Talia Traveler's lives in Buenos Aires.

4. How does Traveler's codependency with Horacio manifest itself in this section?

5. What eerie, somewhat mystical, harbinger comes to Pola in Chapter 64?

6. What indiscretion does Horacio commit in Chapter 54?

7. How does the novel end?

8. How does Horacio settle in Buenos Aires in this section?

9. Why are Etienne and Horacio shocked when they get to the old writers room in Chapter in 154?

10. What task does Morelli give Horacio and Etienne in Chapter 154?

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