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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Renee think to herself about her interest in painting?
(a) She wishes she were more up on modern artists.
(b) She wishes she could paint.
(c) She should dumb that down also.
(d) She wishes she could afford even reproductions of good art.

2. What is Renee thinking about when someone knocks on her door?
(a) Learning to play bridge.
(b) Having given herself away to Kakuro.
(c) What to read for the evening.
(d) How to redeem herself with Manuela.

3. What bothers Renee a little about the dress Manuela borrows for her?
(a) It was made for a woman who is now deceased.
(b) It seems a little revealing.
(c) It isvery expensive.
(d) It seems to flashy.

4. What makes Paloma wonder what else a person might ignore?
(a) When Kakuro ignores someone who mutters something about Japanese.
(b) When Renee pretends she hears no insults from a tenant.
(c) When Paloma's father ignores a terribly hungry person on the street.
(d) When the two people she observes in a fight both ignore their right hands.

5. What surprises Renee about Kakuro's last name?
(a) It is the same as another Japanese man she knows.
(b) It is not Japanese.
(c) It is the same as both a favorite author and filmmaker of Renee's.
(d) It is German.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Renee invite Paloma into her apartment?

2. What do Paloma and Kakuro decide to do?

3. Who calls Kakuro?

4. Why does Paloma prefer her aunt and uncle to her own parents?

5. About what is Manuela joyful?

Short Essay Questions

1. What surprises Renee as she enters Kakuro's apartment and what does that make her consider?

2. Briefly describe Renee's dinner with Kakuro.

3. What does Manuela tell Renee about Kakuro's apartment, and what is Renee's response?

4. Why does Paloma displease a teacher at her school?

5. How does Renee give herself away as far as her intelligence to the new tenant?

6. What does Renee do when a package comes for Columbe?

7. What does Paul Nguyen tell Renee when he comes to her door and what is Renee's response?

8. What does Paloma find interesting about the new tenant as concerns her mother?

9. What do Renee and Manuela discuss concerning Renee's upcoming dinner date?

10. What fight does Paloma describe between her mother and another woman?

(see the answer keys)

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