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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Casilda Armenta jokingly call her lunch with the narrator?
(a) A mistake.
(b) A honeymoon.
(c) A second chance.
(d) A date.

2. What does the note the girl leaves with her gift call the narrator?
(a) Wise teacher.
(b) My love.
(c) Ugly papa.
(d) Old man.

3. What does the narrator buy in the midst of reordering his house?
(a) Electic razor.
(b) Car.
(c) Coffee pot.
(d) Record player.

4. What does the narrator say caused him to lose all his lovers?
(a) Mean heart.
(b) Pointless rigor.
(c) Empty soul.
(d) Insufficient funds.

5. What does the narrator find when he goes to turn in his last column?
(a) A party.
(b) An empty office.
(c) Rosa Cabarcas.
(d) A pink slip.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rosa Cabarcas tease the narrator about after his first night with the girl?

2. How long has it been since Rosa Cabarcas heard from the narrator?

3. Who stops the narrator on the street after he gets the cat?

4. What is the one flaw of the narrator's home?

5. Who does the narrator compare the girl to after their time apart?

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