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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 color is the dress Connie wears to the Tovarich in Chapter 1: Paco?
(a) Green.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) Purple.

2. What verb does the narrator use to describe the way Connie is sitting at a table on the balcony when Pepe approaches?
(a) Perch.
(b) Lean.
(c) Slump.
(d) Crouch.

3. At what type of location do Paco and Pepe have a conversation near the end of Chapter 1: Paco?
(a) A shooting range.
(b) A library.
(c) A school.
(d) A park.

4. In what manner does Connie ask Pepe to forgive her after he calls her names on the balcony at the Tovarich?
(a) Angry.
(b) Defeated.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Loving.

5. What two items did Connie throw into the pond as a young girl before lying to her family about being robbed?
(a) A key and a doll.
(b) A bracelet and a doll.
(c) A watch and a necklace.
(d) A doll and a pair of earrings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position does the man hold who is having an affair with Connie?

2. Paco is part Filipino and part what other nationality, according to the narrator of Chapter 1: Paco?

3. What event led to the destruction of the famous house about which Pepe had always heard?

4. What sort of doctor does Pepe Monson claim to be at the beginning of the chapter entitled "Paco"?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Whose narrative perspective is provided within the opening of the novel The Woman Who Had Two Navels?

2. Name three pieces of information Concha tells Pepe that contradict what Connie herself had told him.

3. What is an azotea and what is its significance to the narrative of The Woman Who Had Two Navels?

4. How does Pepe end up staying at the Tovarich with Connie while the rest of his party goes home?

5. What does Rita find in her apartment the morning after Connie has spent the night?

6. In what way is the theme of family bonds treated differently in Chapter 2: Macho than in Chapter 1: Paco and what is the significance of this complication?

7. When Concha refrains from answering the telephone in Chapter 2: Macho, which character is calling her and why?

8. How does the motif of sound appear within Pepe's recollections of his father's stories about Binondo?

9. How does the theme of appearance versus reality appear within Pepe's comments to Concha within Chapter 1: Paco?

10. Name three pieces of information the reader learns about Paco when the narrator provides his perspective at the end of Chapter 1: Paco.

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