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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the narrator's fiancé wearing the first time he saw her?
(a) A red dress.
(b) A lace negligee.
(c) Black high heels.
(d) An orange flower.

2. What does the narrator decide to give himself for a birthday gift?
(a) A virgin.
(b) An orgy.
(c) A vacation.
(d) A cat.

3. What does the housekeeper give the narrator for his birthday?
(a) Red roses.
(b) A watch.
(c) Sex.
(d) New clothes.

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

5. How many of the 48 original employees of the paper are still alive?
(a) 6 employees.
(b) 8 employees.
(c) 2 employees.
(d) 4 employees.

6. What was the narrator told would flee from his body when he died?
(a) Evil.
(b) Roaches.
(c) Lice.
(d) Happiness.

7. The narrator's home is on the sunny side of what park?
(a) San Nicolas.
(b) San Josephina.
(c) San Nina.
(d) San Jose.

8. What kind of cat does the narrator get for his birthday?
(a) Tabby.
(b) Long-hair.
(c) Angora.
(d) Siamese.

9. What subjects did the narrator teach?
(a) Latin and Spanish.
(b) Grammar and Reading.
(c) French and Italian.
(d) Math and Statistics.

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

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

12. What kind of editor was the narrator at the newspaper?
(a) Sports.
(b) Cable.
(c) Crime.
(d) Entertainment.

13. What kind of tile does the narrator's house have?
(a) Florentine.
(b) Mayan.
(c) Parisian.
(d) Mexican.

14. What day does the narrator's column appear in the paper?
(a) Monday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Sunday.

15. How many children did the narrator's mother hope he would have?
(a) 4 children.
(b) 3 children.
(c) 2 children.
(d) 6 children.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many women does the narrator have on a list of sexual conquests by his fifties?

2. What do the secretaries at the newspaper give to the narrator for his birthday?

3. How old is the girl that Rosa Cabarcas finds?

4. The narrator's mother was a notable interpreter of ________.

5. What birthday is the narrator celebrating at the beginning of the novel?

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