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

2. What does the narrator do in a desperate attempt the pass the time while the girl is missing?

3. What does the narrator imagine the girl asking him about at breakfast?

4. Who do the newspapers accuse of murdering the dead man from Rosa's?

5. What does the girl give the narrator for Christmas?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator imagine happened during the stormy night?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do the cultural and historical aspects of the setting impact the narrative? How do they impact the themes of morality and love?

Essay Topic 2

What is the purpose of the narrator investigating the young girl hit by a bus on her bicycle? Why does the narrator go to the hospital in order to see the victim? What is the greater truth he discovers while he is there?

Essay Topic 3

What is the gift that the girl gives to the narrator throughout the novel? Is the inheritance he will leave her a greater gift than the one she has given him? Why or why not?

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