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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Leni decide to help the Germans?
(a) She is told she will be killed if she does not.
(b) She is given money.
(c) She loves the country.
(d) She realizes they are right.

2. In what is the prepared food to come?
(a) A fresh plastic cup
(b) An old silver tray
(c) A new tin plate
(d) A new copper bowl

3. Who gets married in the story Molina tells to himself?
(a) The man and his male partner
(b) No one
(c) The man and the servant
(d) The man and his original fiancee

4. Where are Valentin and Molina located throughout the majority of the book?
(a) A schoolyard
(b) A campground
(c) A house
(d) Prison

5. Who helps to take care of the house owner?
(a) His new male friend
(b) His fiancee
(c) The servant girl
(d) A military MP

6. What does Molina offer to fix for Valentin?
(a) Coffee
(b) Tea
(c) Applesauce
(d) Rice

7. About whom is Molina worried?
(a) His girlfriend
(b) Valentin
(c) Irena
(d) His mother

8. Why is the story at the end not actually about the person in #78? (Or is it?)
(a) The character dies.
(b) The story is untrue.
(c) The story is a movie.
(d) The story does not end.

9. What does Valentin say about constantly escaping reality through movies - it can become a ______.
(a) Vice
(b) Drug
(c) Reality
(d) Habit

10. How many other guys are trading on the black market, and are described in detail, in this new story?
(a) 4
(b) 3
(c) 1
(d) 2

11. Where does the assistant decide to relax after a long day?
(a) The backyard conservatory
(b) The pool
(c) The spa
(d) The zoo

12. Whose essay on sexuality does the footnote detail?
(a) Parker
(b) Suarez
(c) Freud
(d) Jung

13. Who wants Valentin to leave the movement?
(a) His girlfriend
(b) His brother
(c) His father
(d) His mother

14. Who cooks dinner for the two men in the prison cell?
(a) Molina
(b) The guard
(c) The cook staff
(d) Valentin

15. With whom does the Warden tell Molina to say he has met?
(a) His mother
(b) The Warden
(c) The parole board
(d) His sister

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the owner of the house when he goes off to war?

2. Who shows all of his/her work including pictures of fierce animals?

3. What does Molina have to do when he's in front of the Warden?

4. Who has been trading in the black market for surplus food in this new story?

5. Who is thinking about the story from the last chapter again?

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