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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator's housekeeper?
(a) Delgadina.
(b) Lucinda.
(c) Florina.
(d) Damiana.

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

3. What do the secretaries at the newspaper give to the narrator for his birthday?
(a) Silk boxers.
(b) A recording of Chopin.
(c) A coffee maker.
(d) A cat.

4. How many women does the narrator have on a list of sexual conquests by his fifties?
(a) 93.
(b) 514.
(c) 879.
(d) 410.

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

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

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

8. Who is the editor-in-chief talking to when the narrator goes into his office as requested?
(a) President.
(b) Governor.
(c) His father.
(d) Rosa Cabarcas.

9. What page of the newspaper did the narrator's column move to after his ruined wedding?
(a) Page 11.
(b) Page 5.
(c) Page 18.
(d) Page 10.

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

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

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

13. How many years did the housekeeper cry over her love for the narrator?
(a) 22 years.
(b) 12 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 10 years.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did the narrator's fiancé end up having?

2. What left the narrator no time for marriage?

3. Who carved the narrator's writing desk?

4. What book helped the narrator understand his mother's mood?

5. How much does the narrator get paid a month to write his column?

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