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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Eufrasia's opinion of most of the people involved in the case?
(a) She feels that she has too little information to offer the investigators.
(b) She believes that some of them are intelligent, but for the most part they are not.
(c) Her opinion is unfavorable.
(d) She believes that the police will see they are working with experienced criminals.

2. Who does Camilo claim wrote the love letters to him?
(a) Matilde wrote them.
(b) Rosaura wrote them.
(c) He wrote them.
(d) Mrs. Milagros wrote them.

3. How does Rosaura interact with the people at the boarding house?
(a) She stays in her room, seemingly depressed.
(b) She becomes fast friends with Matilde.
(c) She barely speaks to most of them.
(d) She criticizes them constantly.

4. What form does the narrative in Part II, Chapter 11 take?
(a) Someone writing.
(b) Someone testifying.
(c) A letter.
(d) A song.

5. Who does Eufrasia claim may hold the key to the investigation?
(a) The maid.
(b) Camilo's father, who is not dead but living in the suburbs.
(c) The woman who does Camilo's laundry.
(d) Mrs. Milagros.

6. Who stays seated at the table and does not join Mrs. Milagros in greeting Rosaura?
(a) Camilo.
(b) Matilde.
(c) Eufrasia, who is jealous.
(d) Burbano.

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

8. What does the investigator ask Mrs. Milagros?
(a) If she had access to poisons.
(b) If she left the house the night that Rosaura arrived.
(c) If she ever noticed something strange about Rosaura.
(d) If she knew that Camilo had a criminal history.

9. What time does the doorbell ring in Part I, Chapter 8?
(a) 10 p.m.
(b) Noon.
(c) 6 a.m.
(d) 3 p.m. as lunch is being served.

10. What is the first place that Rosaura describes going in town?
(a) A donut shop.
(b) Her old apartment.
(c) Her father's house.
(d) The police station.

11. What is the maid's name?
(a) Matilde.
(b) Elvira.
(c) Elsa.
(d) Martha.

12. Who does Rosaura claim made a false identification for her?
(a) Turco.
(b) Camilo.
(c) The police.
(d) Matilde.

13. Who wrote the statement in Part IV?
(a) Mrs. Milagros.
(b) Matilde.
(c) Clotilda.
(d) Eufrasia.

14. Which character at the boarding house gives Rosaura a hug in Part I, Chapter 9?
(a) Reguel.
(b) Clotilda.
(c) Camilo.
(d) Mrs. Milagros.

15. From whom does Mrs. Milagros hide Rosaura?
(a) Clotilda.
(b) The maid.
(c) The police.
(d) Reguel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eufrasia claim she could not help but do in her bed?

2. Where does the letter describe Rosaura as having lived for five years?

3. What does the investigator notice about Camilo's fingers?

4. What does Mrs. Milagros worry about taking to the wedding?

5. How does Eufrasia describe the way that the maid speaks?

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