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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rosaura remember from many weekends over the past five years?
(a) Museum visits.
(b) Music.
(c) Courses in horticulture.
(d) Work.

2. What does Camilo say about modern art?
(a) He finds the colors interesting.
(b) He admires the most innovative paintings.
(c) He does not understand it.
(d) He wishes he had the personality to make a name for himself as a modern painter.

3. What does Mrs. Milagros note about Rosaura that causes her to believe Rosaura is not as high-class as she expected?
(a) Her fingernails.
(b) Her walk.
(c) Her vocabulary.
(d) Her manner of chewing.

4. How long does Rosaura stay at the boarding house?
(a) Until she marries.
(b) Until she runs away.
(c) Until she falls sick.
(d) Until she has a falling out with Camilo.

5. While all others eat dinner silently, who speaks?
(a) Camilo.
(b) Jorge.
(c) Eufrasia.
(d) Matilde.

6. Where does the maid lead the inspector in Part V?
(a) To a place where he could dig in the yard.
(b) To Lujan.
(c) To the train station.
(d) To her room.

7. Who narrates Part I, Chapter 10?
(a) Camilo.
(b) Eufrasia.
(c) Mrs. Milagros.
(d) Clotilda.

8. Where does the maid describe traveling?
(a) Her mother's home.
(b) San Carlos.
(c) Lujan
(d) Chile.

9. What area does Rosaura say she is from?
(a) La Zona Rosa.
(b) El Centro.
(c) Belgano.
(d) The south of the city.

10. What does Eufrasia claim Rosaura asked Camilo for?
(a) A child.
(b) A new house.
(c) Money.
(d) An exotic honeymoon.

11. Why does Rosaura claim she arrived at the boarding house?
(a) To offer to work as a maid.
(b) To see if rooms were available.
(c) To ask Camilo for money.
(d) To ask about dinner.

12. To whom is the final letter of the book addressed?
(a) Camilo Canegato.
(b) Rosa China.
(c) Mrs. Milagros.
(d) Senor T. Iglesias.

13. Who becomes friends with Rosaura?
(a) Matilde.
(b) Reguel.
(c) Burbano.
(d) Clotilda.

14. Who discusses meeting Rosaura with Mrs. Milagros after all have gone to their rooms?
(a) Camilo.
(b) Her daughters.
(c) Eufrasia, who cannot sleep.
(d) Coretti.

15. Which boarding house guests leave the table to greet Rosaura in Part I, Chapter 8?
(a) Eufrasia and Matilde.
(b) Camilo and Coretti.
(c) Coretti and Burbano.
(d) Nearly all of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character at the boarding house gives Rosaura a hug in Part I, Chapter 9?

2. How does the narrator of Part II, Chapter 11, characterize the people who live at the boarding house?

3. What role does the investigator play in Part II, Chapter 11?

4. What form does the narrative in Part II, Chapter 11 take?

5. Who at the boarding house has bad manners?

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