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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Conchita tell Palomo that he needs to do to be able to understand?
(a) Watch her and the lector have sex.
(b) Delve further into the book.
(c) Let himself go and become her.
(d) Take his own lover.

2. What does Juan Julian say he would like to learn?
(a) How to make a cigar.
(b) What it is like to be married.
(c) What a true winter is like.
(d) What New Englanders are like.

3. Why doesn't Santiago want to face Chechy?
(a) He doesn't like Chechy.
(b) He knows the story bothers him.
(c) He knows that Chechy slept with his wife.
(d) He doesn't have the money to repay the loan.

4. Which of the following terms is the best definition of a superstition?
(a) Scientific proof.
(b) False notion.
(c) Religious belief.
(d) Uncontrollable desire.

5. What does Levin's efforts to dissuade Anna's brother from selling off his ancestral land make Santiago realize?
(a) How much he truly loves Ofelia.
(b) The problems he faces in his life.
(c) The extent of the errors he made with his half-brother.
(d) The relationships with the factory workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chechy resent lectors?

2. What does Juan Julian say cities do to him?

3. What are Marela and Conchita waiting for?

4. What does Juan Julian compare Tampa to?

5. What does Juan Julian do as he reads the novel?

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