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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What upsets the narrator most about the girl's appearance after their time apart?
(a) Her eyes.
(b) Her make-up.
(c) Her dress.
(d) Her jewelry.

2. Who takes the ill cat to the veterinarian?
(a) The editor.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The ousekeeper.
(d) Rosa Cabarcas.

3. What kind of music does the narrator listen to when he is missing the girl?
(a) Boleros.
(b) Piano.
(c) Opera.
(d) Violin.

4. What changed most about the girl in their month apart?
(a) Her hair.
(b) Her hands.
(c) Her face.
(d) Her body.

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

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

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

8. What kind of flowers does the narrator wish he could put in a vase in the girl's room?
(a) Pink roses.
(b) Yellow roses.
(c) Daisies.
(d) Orchids.

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

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

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

12. One night a man dies of ________ at Rosa Cabarcas' house.
(a) Poison.
(b) Gunshot.
(c) Slit throat.
(d) Stab wounds.

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

14. What is the girl's hair like?
(a) Long and curly.
(b) Short and curly.
(c) Short and silky.
(d) Long and silky.

15. What does the narrator's house smell like when he returns to find the leaks from the storm?
(a) Rain.
(b) Cat.
(c) The girl.
(d) Mildew.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For how many days did the narrator try to call Rosa Cabarcas's house, but got no answer?

3. The first time the narrator hears the girl's voice she talks about ___.

4. In his sorrow over the cat's fate, what does the narrator compare the cat to in a column?

5. Rosa Cabarcas offers the narrator another girl whose father wants __________.

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