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

2. The narrator imagines singing love duets by _________ with the girl.
(a) Manccini.
(b) Bach.
(c) Puccini.
(d) Beethoven.

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

4. What does the narrator call the newspaper censor?
(a) The Eyes.
(b) The Cutter.
(c) Abominable No Man.
(d) All-Seeing Seer.

5. The first time the narrator hears the girl's voice she talks about ___.
(a) Cows.
(b) Fish.
(c) Snails.
(d) Frogs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator tell the hospital staff he is to gain entrance?

2. The narrator's columns are read on _________.

3. Who takes the ill cat to the veterinarian?

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

5. What music is playing when the narrator goes into the room to see the girl after a month apart?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator react to the false account of the murdered man?

3. What is the song that the narrator likes to sing to the girl about Delgadina?

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

5. What does the narrator do to try to rectify the false account of the banker's death?

6. How does the narrator's feeling for the girl change his column?

7. Why does Rosa Cabarcas pull the narrator from the girl's bed one night?

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

9. What does his love for the girl cause the narrator to see about himself?

10. What does the narrator find on the mirror the morning after his second night with the girl?

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