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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In whose flat does the jazz listening session of this section take place?
(a) Ossip's.
(b) Ronald and Bab's.
(c) Horacio's.
(d) Wong's.

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

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

4. What is Horacio's philosophical goal in Paris?
(a) Living a free existence.
(b) Showing that there is no single dialectic.
(c) Disproving Hegel.
(d) Discovering a unifying force in life.

5. Why is the Serpent Club often annoyed with La Maga?
(a) She does not know the texts they discuss.
(b) She is keeping Horacio away from them.
(c) She dozes off during their debates.
(d) Her English and French are poor.

6. Over time, what does La Maga fantasize Horacio will do during sex?
(a) Cry.
(b) Kill her.
(c) Tie her up.
(d) Say he loves her.

7. In Chapter 15, Horatio privately wonders whether his education has turned him into what?
(a) An egotist.
(b) A cretin.
(c) A fool.
(d) A prude.

8. What traumatic event is related by Maga in Chapter 15?
(a) The death of her father.
(b) Her last night in Montenegro.
(c) Her childhood rape.
(d) A miscarriage.

9. In Chapter 16, who joins Horacio in mocking Maga's story?
(a) Ronald.
(b) Perico.
(c) Wong.
(d) Etienne.

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

11. Who is Rocamadour?
(a) Maga's son.
(b) Horacio's nephew.
(c) Horacio's brother.
(d) Maga's father.

12. In what season do Maga and Horacio meet?
(a) Summer.
(b) Winter.
(c) Spring.
(d) Autumn.

13. What form of horrific execution is shown by the pictures Wong produces in Chapter 14?
(a) Flaying.
(b) Public stoning.
(c) Death by a thousand cuts.
(d) Living surgery.

14. What area of Paris is Horacio searching for La Maga in Chapter 1?
(a) Ponts des Arts.
(b) Montmartre.
(c) Champs d'Elysee.
(d) Montparnasse.

15. Which theatre theorist is quoted in Chapter 128?
(a) Brook.
(b) Tynan.
(c) Artaud.
(d) Beckett.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ossip respond to Maga's simple question in Chapter 25?

2. What does Horacio do when Maga starts crying in Chapter 12?

3. Why can't Horacio leave Berthe Trepat as he walks her home in Chapter 23?

4. How does Berthe Trepat respond to Horacio's offer of a hotel at the end of Chapter 23?

5. Why does Rocamadour move in with Maga and Horacio in Chapter 19?

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