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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 happens as the dawn comes?
(a) Gerardo is cooking bacon.
(b) Roberto's wife calls him on his cell phone.
(c) Roberto awakes.
(d) Police are knocking on the door.

2. How does Paulina feel about the possibility of these people going to trial?
(a) Depressed.
(b) Thrilled.
(c) Angry.
(d) Confused.

3. What does Paulina pretend when Gerardo comes back in the room?
(a) That she is not feeling well.
(b) That she has been asleep.
(c) That she heard the two men's entire conversation.
(d) That Gerardo's sister had called.

4. What does Paulina do with the keys?
(a) Throws them over the balcony into the lake.
(b) Hits Roberto in the face with them.
(c) Drives away in Roberto's car.
(d) Hides them in the kitchen.

5. Why is it likely Paulina does not want to encounter Roberto?
(a) She does not go out to meet him when he comes in the house.
(b) She cowers under the covers shaking.
(c) She calls the police to have Roberto forcibly removed from her house.
(d) She tells Gerardo to make him leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what has Gerardo just been appointed?

2. Who does Roberto mention as being gone at the moment?

3. What does Roberto say he enjoys when his wife and children are away?

4. What does Roberto suggest that Gerardo will have on his hands soon?

5. From where did Paulina get the tape?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Gerardo and Paulina do when the music ends?

2. How and when was Paulina arrested and what was she too afraid to do?

3. Why was the doctor involved with torture?

4. What does Paulina get when she goes back in the spare bedroom?

5. What is the purpose of the commission the government is forming?

6. How does the play, DEATH AND THE MAIDEN, open?

7. How is Gerardo acting when he comes in the house?

8. What does Roberto tell Gerardo about his stopping at their house?

9. What does the audience see after Paulina leaves the house?

10. Why do you think Act 1, Scene 3 has no dialogue?

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