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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, From the Other Side: Chapters 9, 104, 10, 65, 11, 136, 12, 106, 13, 115.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what new information about herself does La Maga tell Horacio?
(a) She has a child.
(b) She does not love him.
(c) She came to Paris to find happiness.
(d) She is from Uruguay.

2. How is Ossip occupied in Chapter 11?
(a) He is choosing music.
(b) He is making mate.
(c) He is arguing with Horacio.
(d) He is flirting with Maga.

3. By what controversial French thinker is the quote is Chapter 136?
(a) Jean Dubuffet.
(b) The Marquis de Sade.
(c) George Bataille.
(d) Charles de Gaulle.

4. In Chapter 74, Morelli says that the true nonconformist is only concerned with what to things?
(a) Freedom is self and freedom of society.
(b) Minutia and grand ideas.
(c) Love and hate.
(d) Life and death.

5. Who is playing in Chapter 13?
(a) Bessie Coleman.
(b) Satchmo.
(c) John Coltrane.
(d) Miles Davis.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what abstract idea does Horacio ruminate for most of Chapter 3?

2. What is Horacio's philosophical goal in Paris?

3. What language is Chapter 68 written in?

4. Who does Horacio quote in Chapter 116?

5. In whose flat does the jazz listening session of this section take place?

(see the answer key)

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