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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 the topic of the letter in the Observer in Chapter 146?
(a) Show horses.
(b) Courtship.
(c) Butterflies.
(d) Modern literature.

2. Who does Babs physically attack in Chapter 35?
(a) Ossip.
(b) Etienne.
(c) Ronald.
(d) Horacio.

3. Who is the person that Horacio thinks is Maga when he sees her playing hopscotch in Chapter 54?
(a) A patient.
(b) A nurse.
(c) Gekrepten.
(d) Talita.

4. In Chapter 43, what does Talita reveal about Traveler's strained state of mind?
(a) He is talking to himself.
(b) He has started yelling at her.
(c) He cannot sleep.
(d) He is losing weight.

5. Which of the following is not a topic upon which Morelli expounds in Chapter 154?
(a) Algeria.
(b) Chess.
(c) His own writing.
(d) Ezra Pound.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two characters attempt to analyze Maga in Chapter 142?

2. Who is Horacio thinking about in Chapter 48?

3. According to Gabio Basso in Chapter 148, the root of the word person originally meant what?

4. What does Morelli give Horacio to take to the writer's flat in Chapter 154?

5. What is revolutionary about the novel Morelli is writing in Chapter 154?

Short Essay Questions

1. What indiscretion does Horacio commit in Chapter 54?

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

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

4. How does the Serpent Club's final gathering end?

5. What dream does Horacio have in Chapter 123, and what does Etienne take from it?

6. What is revealed in the tape recording of Chapter 47?

7. How is Traveler affected by Horacio in this section?

8. How does the novel end?

9. In Chapter 56, how does Horacio protect himself after he kisses Talita?

10. What two meanings of the term hopscotch appear in the first book?

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