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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 literary convention does Morelli decry in Chapter 112?
(a) Rhetoric.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Past tense.
(d) Punctuation.

2. Why is Morelli excited to see Horacio in Chapter 154?
(a) Horacio has booze.
(b) He wants visitors.
(c) He has received Horacio's fan mail.
(d) Horacio says he is his biggest fan.

3. What is Feraguto about to purchase in Chapter 44?
(a) A hotel.
(b) A hospital.
(c) A car.
(d) Another circus.

4. What does Horacio do between Chapters 56 and 135?
(a) He jumps from his window.
(b) He leaves Buenos Aires.
(c) He marries Gekrepten.
(d) He gets in a fight with Traveler.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of circus attraction does Manolo Traveler manage?

2. In Chapter 31, what is the only thing that Horacio says he wants?

3. What does Pola wonder as she and Horacio make love in Chapter 101?

4. In Chapter 78, what is Horacio convinced about the Travelers' marriage?

5. Who is the person that Horacio thinks is Maga when he sees her playing hopscotch in Chapter 54?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Pola, and how does she know Horacio?

3. How does the novel end?

4. What is revolutionary about Morelli's forthcoming book?

5. What do Ronald and Etienne discuss in Chapter 142?

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

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

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

9. Describe the argument that Ossip and Horacio have in this section.

10. How does Horacio get arrested at the Ponts des Arts in Chapter 36?

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