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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many women does the narrator have on a list of sexual conquests by his fifties?
2. What is the topic of the narrator's birthday column?
3. What does the narrator find when he goes to turn in his last column?
4. What does the narrator do for the first time with a woman the night he meets the girl?
5. What do the secretaries at the newspaper give to the narrator for his birthday?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the narrator's first experience like with the girl?
2. What happens when the narrator is the honored guest at a concert? What does he remember most from the evening?
3. What is the narrator's relationship like with his housekeeper?
4. What is the only long term relationship in the narrator's life?
5. What was the contrast between the narrator's sex life and his regular life?
6. What happens when the narrator goes to turn in his resignation at the newspaper?
7. What happens on the narrator's taxi ride to the brothel the first time he goes to see the girl?
8. What do the narrator and Rosa Cabarcas discuss in phone calls the day following his first night with the girl?
9. What kind of gifts does the narrator get from the newspaper staff for his birthday?
10. How does the narrator describe his writing desk?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What could the message scrawled in lipstick in the mirror mean and what is the larger purpose for this element of the plot? Give examples from the book to support your discussion.
Essay Topic 2
What is the difference between the life in time and the life by value as embodied by the narrator in "Memories of My Melancholy Whores"? Give specific examples from the book to support your discussion.
Essay Topic 3
What is ironic about the narrator's ninetieth year? How does the author draw on this irony to illustrate a greater truth?
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