Death and the Maiden Test | Final Test - Easy

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Death and the Maiden Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Roberto after he is tied up at Paulina and Gerardo's home?
(a) His fate is not mentioned.
(b) The couple kills him.
(c) He is beaten badly and left on the steps of the hospital.
(d) The couple forgives him and they eventually become friends.

2. What does Paulina mention using to rape Roberto, implying that he had done the same to her.
(a) A flashlight.
(b) A stick.
(c) A police baton.
(d) A broom handle.

3. Why is Gerardo being congratulated?
(a) For the release of an important paper.
(b) For having such an incredible wife.
(c) For his birthday.
(d) On the birth of his son.

4. What does Paulina say when Gerardo asks if she intends to kill Roberto?
(a) Of course, after Roberto confesses.
(b) She has not decided yet.
(c) Not unless Roberto tries to escape.
(d) They didn't kill her, so that wouldn't be fair.

5. How does Paulina want to honor Gerardo's caring of her?
(a) Adopt a child and care for him in the same way.
(b) Let him go back and have an affair with the other woman.
(c) Take him on a long cruise.
(d) Buy him a year's worth of sessions with a massage therapist.

6. Why does Gerardo think he'll have to resign?
(a) Because his wife is insane.
(b) Because the events here will be made public.
(c) Because he is ineffective.
(d) Because he wants to kill Roberto.

7. How has Gerardo thought of Paulina's emotional state over the years?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) In denial.
(d) Joyous.

8. Where is Paulina at the opening of this scene?
(a) At the neighbor's house.
(b) Out on the terrace.
(c) At the police station.
(d) In bed asleep.

9. What do Gerardo and Paulina have with them on the terrace?
(a) A camera.
(b) Dinner.
(c) A tape recorder.
(d) An impartial witness.

10. What does Paulina talk about in the opening of this scene?
(a) How she wants to move to the United States and get away from her past.
(b) The horrors she suffered at the hands of Dr. Miranda.
(c) How she wants to forgive Dr. Miranda but cannot.
(d) Her inability to get a job after her time with Dr. Miranda.

11. Roberto asks what of Gerardo?
(a) For another cup of coffee.
(b) For a cigarette.
(c) To set him free.
(d) What he supposedly did.

12. Besides his voice, how else does Paulina know Roberta was one of her torturers?
(a) The way he says certain words with a foreign accent.
(b) The way he blinks his eyes constantly.
(c) The feel of his skin and his smell.
(d) The way he sniffs his nose constantly.

13. How much time has elapsed since the last scene?
(a) Several months.
(b) A week.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Two days.

14. About what phrase does Paulina talk?
(a) "A penny saved is a penny earned."
(b) "Two birds with one stone."
(c) "Son of a bitch."
(d) "Birds of a feather flock together."

15. Who did Dr. Miranda used to quote?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Marx.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Paulina looking when the stage goes dark?

2. What was one thing that revolted Gerardo under the military regime?

3. What seems to happen to Gerardo in this scene?

4. What does Paulina say about the way Roberto takes his coffee?

5. Why does Gerardo leave Roberto at the end of the scene?

(see the answer keys)

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