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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator goes to a ________ to learn more about the girl's soul.
(a) Priest.
(b) Palm reader.
(c) Clairvoyant.
(d) Witch doctor.

2. What does the narrator imagine the girl's kisses taste like?
(a) Chocolate.
(b) Roses.
(c) Death.
(d) Licorice

3. What does the narrator give the girl for her birthday?
(a) A bicycle.
(b) A teddy Bear.
(c) Earrings.
(d) Perfume.

4. What name does Rosa Cabarcas call the girl?
(a) Lucinda.
(b) La Nina.
(c) Damiana.
(d) Delgadina.

5. Whose poems is the narrator finally able to translate in the midst of his illness?
(a) Lyons.
(b) Leopardi.
(c) Juarez.
(d) Johnson.

6. Who sealed up Rosa's house?
(a) Ministry of state.
(b) The police department.
(c) A mysterious neighbor.
(d) The health department.

7. Where do the newspapers report the dead man from Rosa's was killed?
(a) A brothel.
(b) The highway.
(c) The town square.
(d) An alley.

8. Who does the narrator hear singing as he enters the girl's room for the third time?
(a) Italian opera.
(b) Spanish boleros.
(c) American tenor.
(d) Western pop.

9. Who does the narrator imagine is helping him clean up from the storm?
(a) His mother.
(b) The cat.
(c) Rosa Cabarcas.
(d) The girl.

10. The narrator knows the girl in the hospital is not his love by her ____.
(a) Hair.
(b) Feet.
(c) Eyes.
(d) Hands.

11. The narrator begins to enter the brothel through the back door instead of the ___ door.
(a) Orchard.
(b) Front.
(c) Forest.
(d) Secret.

12. Where does the narrator find a message scrawled in lipstick in the girl's room?
(a) On the floor.
(b) On the mirror.
(c) On the wall.
(d) On the sheet.

13. What does Rosa Cabarcas think is the narrator's problem when it comes to the girl?
(a) Sexual problems.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) Empty nest syndrome.
(d) Senile dementia.

14. What does Rosa Cabarcas suggest the narrator do after he destroys the girls room?
(a) Calm down.
(b) Take her home.
(c) Never return.
(d) Go to hell.

15. The man who dies at Rosa's is a famous __________.
(a) Singer.
(b) Banker.
(c) Politician.
(d) Bull fighter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator wear to sleep with the girl?

2. The narrator's column becomes ________.

3. The narrator imagines singing love duets by _________ with the girl.

4. What kind of earrings does the narrator give the girl?

5. Who helps the narrator write a front page story about the dead man?

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