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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 lie does Adam tell Teresa?
(a) His mother died.
(b) His father died.
(c) His cousin died.
(d) His brother died.

2. Why does Cyrus feel responsible for the stranger's drowning?
(a) He pushed her head under water.
(b) He taught her how to swim.
(c) She was his best friend.
(d) She would never have gotten into the river if he had not.

3. What does Teresa describe to Adam the first night they meet?
(a) Her career.
(b) Her child.
(c) Her own cancer.
(d) Her father's death.

4. Where do prostitutes sometimes congregate?
(a) The Gran Via.
(b) The Bluma.
(c) The Sagrada.
(d) The Mocihia.

5. Where do Adam and Isabel go to visit her relative?
(a) Estaba.
(b) Hario.
(c) Madrid.
(d) Toledo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Adam say he wrongly laughed at Isabel's story?

2. Where does Adam go with Teresa and Arturo the first time he meets them?

3. Where did Adam go to college?

4. What does Adam try hard to imagine his poems' relation to in Part II?

5. Who does Adam especially have contempt for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Adam tell Cyrus about his responsibility for the stranger's death in Mexico?

2. What is the misunderstanding between Adam and Isabel when they first meet?

3. Who does Adam meet that is a turning point in his project in Part I?

4. What does Arturo do for Adam as Adam reads his poems?

5. Who does Adam begin a romantic relationship with in Part II?

6. What does Adam tell Rufina about going back to America?

7. Where is Adam on his fellowship?

8. Who does Isabel take Adam to visit in her family?

9. What is Adam intensely suspicious of when it comes to art?

10. What does Adam realize after visiting Isabel's family about the differences between them?

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