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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the guilt and shame that Arturo feels about having been with Vera?
(a) He is sorry that he thought of Camilla the entire time
(b) He feels he has taken advantage of Vera's loneliness
(c) He feels he has committed the mortal sin of adultery
(d) He feels he has violated Vera's innocence

2. Arturo's next story will be based on:
(a) Vera
(b) Sammy
(c) Camilla
(d) Hellfrick

3. Whose poetry does Vera quote to Arturo?
(a) Emerson
(b) Millay
(c) Frost
(d) Keats

4. Arturo calls Camilla a cheap imitation of:
(a) A woman
(b) An American
(c) A friend
(d) A Mexican

5. Finally admitting she is in love with Sammy, Camilla asks Arturo to:
(a) Write a story about their relationship
(b) Review and critique Sammy's manuscripts
(c) Respect Sammy's wishes to be an author
(d) Write a story about Sammy and his cowboy life

6. What does Vera think of Arturo's writing?
(a) It is mediocre
(b) It is no good
(c) She has not read it
(d) It is brilliant

7. Arturo's responds to Vera's disfigured skin by:
(a) Telling her she is still lovely
(b) Advising her to get surgery
(c) Leaving the room
(d) Offering her another drink

8. One indication that everything has changed for Arturo is:
(a) He has to take a different room at the Alta Loma
(b) He has decided to live on the beach
(c) Camilla is gone again
(d) He has gotten rid of the marijuana

9. When Arturo feels like "Bandini" with Camilla, he:
(a) Becomes aggressive and rough
(b) Becomes talkative and intellectual
(c) Becomes tender and attentive
(d) Becomes aloof and cold

10. Arturo knows he will go to visit Vera. What does he think she will help him with?
(a) He learn to be more relaxed around women
(b) He will learn all of the tricks she knows about gambling
(c) He will learn to behave more passionately toward Camilla
(d) He will learn to better hold his alcohol

11. When Arturo does something nice, he is often:
(a) Headed for another religious breakthrough
(b) Temporarily humbled
(c) Angry at himself
(d) Self-congratulatory

12. When Arturo returns to Camilla's with a nightgown and reading material:
(a) Invites him in seductively
(b) Shrieks and alarms her neighbors
(c) Unlocks the door and goes back to bed
(d) Accepts the gifts and locks him out

13. Camilla is institutionalized in:
(a) A tuberculosis ward
(b) A mental hospital
(c) State prison
(d) An addiction clinic

14. Why does Arturo write an angry essay about Catholicism?
(a) Because he no longer believes in God
(b) Because the church makes him feel guilty
(c) Because his mother has pushed Catholicism
(d) Because a priest criticized his story

15. When Vera appears in Arturo's room for the first time, he momentarily wants to:
(a) Hug her
(b) Kick her out
(c) Laugh
(d) Beat her

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Arturo try to help Vera?

2. At the beach, Arturo hates the seagulls, and Camilla hates the:

3. Camilla responds to Arturo's request to marry her:

4. What is it about Vera that lingers in the room?

5. Seeing Camilla's apartment after the earthquake, Arturo:

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