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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator consider his native tongue?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Latin.
(c) English.
(d) Italian.

2. Where does the narrator think condemned souls go?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) Havana.
(c) New York.
(d) Miami.

3. What time does the narrator wake each morning?
(a) 5 a.m.
(b) 6 a.m.
(c) 10 a.m.
(d) 7 a.m.

4. What does the narrator do for the first time with a woman the night he meets the girl?
(a) Stay dressed.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Be kind.
(d) Cry.

5. What time did the bride's family begin to knock on the narrator's door on the day he missed his wedding?
(a) 7.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 9.

6. What is the one flaw of the narrator's home?
(a) Broken windows.
(b) Loud noise from the street.
(c) Sloping floors.
(d) Sunny windows during siesta.

7. For how many years did the narrator's fiancé leave the country after he left her at the altar?
(a) 7 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 30 years.

8. How much does the narrator get paid a month to write his column?
(a) 15 pesos.
(b) 20 pesos.
(c) 12 pesos.
(d) 14 pesos.

9. How many children did the narrator's fiancé end up having?
(a) 5 children.
(b) 3 children.
(c) 7 children.
(d) 6 children.

10. Who does the narrator call at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) The editor.
(b) Ximena Ortiz.
(c) The girl.
(d) Rosa Cabarcas.

11. The narrator's mother was a notable interpreter of ________.
(a) Puccini.
(b) Chopin.
(c) Brahm.
(d) Mozart.

12. What day of the week does the narrator's birthday fall on?
(a) Saturday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Friday.

13. What left the narrator no time for marriage?
(a) Writing.
(b) Life.
(c) Whores.
(d) Teaching.

14. What did the narrator's mother die from?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Heart disease.
(c) Broken heart.
(d) Cancer.

15. The narrator's students nicknamed him Professor ___________.
(a) Fancy Pants.
(b) Gloomy Hills.
(c) Moron.
(d) No Name.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subjects did the narrator teach?

2. What does Rosa Cabarcas want to give the narrator for his birthday?

3. Who would chaperone the narrator's evenings with his fiancé?

4. Whose statue can the narrator see from his balcony?

5. How old was the narrator when he started living in the house alone?

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