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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 92, where do Pola and Horacio have their second tryst?
(a) Horacio's flat.
(b) Pola's flat.
(c) A hotel in Bern.
(d) A park.

2. What country does Horacio go to before arriving in Argentina?
(a) Spain.
(b) England.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Uruguay.

3. What does Horacio do between Chapters 56 and 135?
(a) He leaves Buenos Aires.
(b) He gets in a fight with Traveler.
(c) He marries Gekrepten.
(d) He jumps from his window.

4. In Chapter 39, what does Horacio talk to Traveler about instead of Paris?
(a) Politics.
(b) Wine.
(c) Their childhood.
(d) Talita.

5. What group of people do Horacio and Etienne watch while they wait to see Morelli in Chapter 155?
(a) The other visitors.
(b) The doctors.
(c) The nurses.
(d) The patients.

6. What is revolutionary about the novel Morelli is writing in Chapter 154?
(a) It is written in a made-up language.
(b) It contains no characters.
(c) It is over 4,000 pages long.
(d) It can be read in any order.

7. Which character offers a rambling defense of Morelli's methods in Chapter 99?
(a) Ossip.
(b) Babs.
(c) Horacio.
(d) Etienne.

8. Who does Babs physically attack in Chapter 35?
(a) Horacio.
(b) Ronald.
(c) Etienne.
(d) Ossip.

9. What is the name of the international organization that Ceferino Piriz wants to create?
(a) The Allied Powers.
(b) The Peace Coalition.
(c) The Society of Nations.
(d) The League of Demcracies.

10. In Chapter 98, what does Horacio realize that Maga never needed to do?
(a) Have someone to love.
(b) Justify her actions.
(c) Leave Montevideo.
(d) Read a book.

11. In Chapter 37, what does traveler do when Cuca and Talita gossip in his apartment?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Smoke with his friends.
(c) Listen from the bathroom.
(d) Serve mate to them.

12. In Chapter 87, a number by what musician is discussed?
(a) Duke Ellington.
(b) Cole Porter.
(c) Miles Davis.
(d) Satchmo.

13. Why is Morelli excited to see Horacio in Chapter 154?
(a) He has received Horacio's fan mail.
(b) Horacio has booze.
(c) Horacio says he is his biggest fan.
(d) He wants visitors.

14. Why does Emanuele decide to perform oral sex on Horacio in Chapter 36?
(a) She wants to take revenge on her former lover.
(b) She is bored.
(c) She decides that he looks too sad.
(d) She is drunk.

15. According to Ossip in Chapter 29, when did La Maga leave her flat and likely Paris?
(a) After a month of looking for Horacio.
(b) Immediately after Rocamadour died.
(c) After Rocamadour's wake.
(d) When Ossip proposed to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Against whom is the polemic of Chapter 89?

2. What does Morelli give Horacio to take to the writer's flat in Chapter 154?

3. Where does Horacio meet Pola for the first time in Chapter 76?

4. Why does Horacio decide to move in with Gekrepten in Chapter 78?

5. What is Chapter 32?

(see the answer keys)

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