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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What music is playing when the narrator goes into the room to see the girl after a month apart?
(a) Brahm's.
(b) Opera.
(c) Chopin.
(d) Boleros.

2. Who helps the narrator write a front page story about the dead man?
(a) Legal reporter.
(b) Editor-in-chief.
(c) Crime reporter.
(d) Rosa Cabarcus.

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

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

5. What is the painting called that the narrator hangs in the girl's room?
(a) Senorita.
(b) Figurita.
(c) Lolita.
(d) Mona Lisa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What changed most about the girl in their month apart?

2. What kind of flowers does the narrator wish he could put in a vase in the girl's room?

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

4. The narrator knows the girl in the hospital is not his love by her ____.

5. What does the narrator do with the girl the second night?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator think is the real explanation for Rosa Cabarcas's long absence?

2. What does the narrator realize when he chases a girl, thinking she is his Delgadina?

3. How do the newspapers portray the death of the man murdered at Rosa's?

4. How does his time with the girl change the narrator?

5. What is the narrator's experience like reading to the girl?

6. What does Rosa Cabarcas tell the narrator the girl's life is like?

7. What does the narrator discuss during his breakfasts with Rosa Cabarcas?

8. What does the narrator do about his cat in the first few days of ownership?

9. What kind of objects does the narrator bring to the girl's room?

10. What is the narrator's phone conversation like with Rosa Cabarcas after her long absence?

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