View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator's housekeeper?

2. Where does the girl work during the day?

3. What does the narrator find when he goes to turn in his last column?

4. The narrator compares his weekly column to what?

5. What do the secretaries at the newspaper give to the narrator for his birthday?

Short Essay Questions

1. What evidence does the narrator give of his healthy sex life?

2. How would the narrator court his fiancé?

3. What kind of gifts does the narrator get from the newspaper staff for his birthday?

4. Why does the narrator not consummate his first visit with the girl?

5. What happens on the narrator's taxi ride to the brothel the first time he goes to see the girl?

6. What is the only long term relationship in the narrator's life?

7. What evidence does the narrator give of how he is aging?

8. How does the narrator describe the editor of the newspaper?

9. How has the narrator supplemented his income over the years?

10. What do the narrator and Rosa Cabarcas discuss in phone calls the day following his first night with the girl?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of sexual morality and how it resonates throughout the book. Define theme in your discussion and support your statements with examples and quotes.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the allegorical implications of the song of Delgadina. Define allegory and provide examples or quotes to support your discussion.

Essay Topic 3

What does the narrator remember when he returns to the part of town where his father used to work? What does this memory illuminate about the narrator and the choices he made throughout his life?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 778 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample