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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 wear to sleep with the girl?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Flannel pajamas.
(c) Silk boxers.
(d) Chinese silk pajamas.

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

3. The narrator's columns are read on _________.
(a) Bus.
(b) The radio.
(c) Television.
(d) Town square.

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

5. What does the storm destroy at the narrator's house?
(a) Balcony window.
(b) Books.
(c) Writing desk.
(d) Hammock.

6. What does the narrator buy in the midst of reordering his house?
(a) Record player.
(b) Electic razor.
(c) Car.
(d) Coffee pot.

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

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

9. Who does the girl spend Christmas with?
(a) Rosa Cabarcas.
(b) Another man.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Her family.

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

11. The narrator refers to fame as a __________.
(a) Gift.
(b) Fat lady.
(c) Dead man.
(d) Horror.

12. What does the narrator decide to call the girl?
(a) Delgadina.
(b) La Nina.
(c) Florina.
(d) Damiana.

13. In his sorrow over the cat's fate, what does the narrator compare the cat to in a column?
(a) A tiger.
(b) A woman.
(c) A shadow.
(d) A mouse.

14. What does Rosa Cabarcas suggest the narrator should do with the girl?
(a) Leave the girl.
(b) Forget the girl.
(c) Rape the girl.
(d) Marry the girl.

15. What does the narrator do in a desperate attempt the pass the time while the girl is missing?
(a) Cook.
(b) Sing.
(c) Walk.
(d) Crochet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of music does the narrator listen to when he is missing the girl?

2. What does the narrator think he is dying from?

3. Whose poems is the narrator finally able to translate in the midst of his illness?

4. Who does the narrator compare the girl to after their time apart?

5. What is the painting called that the narrator hangs in the girl's room?

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