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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of liar does Pepe call Connie when they run into one another on the balcony at the Tovarich?
(a) Masterful.
(b) Ridiculous.
(c) Horrible.
(d) Practiced.

2. The woman named Concha is the mother of which character?
(a) Connie.
(b) Paco.
(c) Macho.
(d) Pepe.

3. Connie announces that Pepe must take her away from what location when she finds out that Macho is nearby?
(a) The restaurant.
(b) Her hotel.
(c) Hong Kong.
(d) The bar.

4. What is NOT a comment used to describe Connie as she draws a crowd on the dance floor at the Tovrich?
(a) Her young eyes are bright and untroubled. 89
(b) Her hair is swinging.
(c) She has a haughty look.
(d) Her head is tossed back.

5. What kind of establishment is the Tovarich, where Mary, Rita, Paco, and Pepe go together in Chapter 2: Macho?
(a) A coffee shop.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) A cockfighting venue.
(d) A nightclub.

6. When the narrator rejoins Connie and Pepe in Chapter 1 some time after their departure from the Tovarich, in what color car are they "racing up the peak" (90)?
(a) Red.
(b) Aubergine.
(c) White.
(d) Black.

7. When Connie finds evidence that Macho may have another lover, what form does that evidence take?
(a) Phone records.
(b) Phone numbers.
(c) Letters.
(d) Emails.

8. What did Connie used to call her doll when she was a young girl?
(a) Angela.
(b) Princess.
(c) Minnie.
(d) Molly.

9. Connie tells Pepe that by the time she reached what age, "she had become indifferent" (4) to her physical abnormality?
(a) Adolescence.
(b) Twenties.
(c) School age.
(d) Middle age.

10. The waiter at the Tovarich tells Pepe that which character is waiting to speak with him on the balcony?
(a) Mary.
(b) Rita.
(c) Macho.
(d) Connie.

11. Connie states in Chapter 1 that her father has always been "more of a" what to her, "somebody that gave [her] money on holidays" (91)?
(a) A friend.
(b) A stranger.
(c) An uncle.
(d) A grandfather.

12. Rita tells Helen at the start of Chapter 2: Macho that she will be dining out with Pepe and which two other characters?
(a) Connie and the Senora de Vidal.
(b) Paco and Connie.
(c) Mary and Paco.
(d) Connie and Macho.

13. How does Rita react when she finds out that Pepe is staying at the Tovarich to speak to Connie, rather than riding with Rita to their respective homes?
(a) She insists on staying as well.
(b) She tells him not to speak to her.
(c) She runs out of the room.
(d) She laughs.

14. As Connie and Pepe are "racing up a peak in an open car," Pepe yells "Stop it!" (90) a total of how many times before she stops?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

15. With what material is the bundle of evidence bound that Connie considers proof of Macho's dalliance with her mother, Senora de Vidal?
(a) A wax seal.
(b) A piece of twine.
(c) A silk cord.
(d) A rubber band.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Macho when his father bought him a concubine?

2. In Connie's story about her childhood, she states that she dreamt of what kind of fish eating her doll the night the doll was lost to her forever?

3. In what country does the novel The Woman Who Had Two Navels take place?

4. What is the name of the shop co-owned by Rita and her business partner Helen?

5. Pepe's family used to own a famous house in Binondo, one of the oldest parts of which city?

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