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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sounds are heard?
(a) It is absolutely silent.
(b) The telephone is ringing.
(c) Music as well as general audience noise.
(d) Dogs barking.

2. What does Gerardo say Paulina will do if Roberto does not confess?
(a) Have Gerardo work him over with a billy club.
(b) Take him to the police.
(c) Cut out his tongue.
(d) Kill him.

3. What is Roberto doing during the next part of the concert?
(a) Watching Paulina and Gerardo.
(b) Speaking with his wife.
(c) He does not come into the concert hall.
(d) Watching the musicians.

4. What is Gerardo going to tell Paulina about Roberto?
(a) That he is actually an undercover agent for Gerardo's commission.
(b) That he doesn't want to cooperate.
(c) That Gerardo is certain that Roberto is Dr. Miranda.
(d) That he is having a heart attack from fear.

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

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

7. What composer does Paulina want to listen to with Gerardo?
(a) Schubert.
(b) Wagner.
(c) Bach.
(d) Ravel.

8. What is the main thing Paulina wants from Roberto?
(a) His written and signed confession in her hand.
(b) An explanation as to why he hurt her.
(c) A guarantee that he won't go to the police.
(d) An apology.

9. When is Paulina kidnapped?
(a) June, 1979.
(b) January, 1974.
(c) April, 1966.
(d) April, 1975.

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

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

12. What does Paulina intend to do once Roberto begins talking?
(a) Call the police to hear him.
(b) Record his words.
(c) Duct tape his mouth closed.
(d) Tortue him if he lies.

13. Who does Paulina meet after three days of captivity?
(a) Dr. Miranda.
(b) The head of the Secret Police.
(c) Gerardo.
(d) Roberto.

14. Who does Paulina mention that upsets Roberto?
(a) His sister.
(b) His children.
(c) His wife.
(d) His mother.

15. As Paulina persists in questioning Gerardo about the affair, how does he respond.
(a) Asks her why they torture each other in this way and does she want him to leave.
(b) He says he wants a divorce.
(c) He says he will find the woman and let Paulina talk to her.
(d) He says if she brings it up once more, he will shoot her instead of Roberto.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Gerardo thank?

2. What does Paulina say about the relationship between some doctors and the secret police?

3. What song begins to play when Paulina tells her story?

4. Who enters as Paulina is paying for the candy?

5. What does she talk about doing to Roberto?

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