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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the topic of the letter in the Observer in Chapter 146?
(a) Butterflies.
(b) Modern literature.
(c) Courtship.
(d) Show horses.

2. Where does Horacio meet Pola for the first time in Chapter 76?
(a) In a cathedral.
(b) At a cafe.
(c) At the Cimetaire Pere Lachaisse.
(d) At Berthe Trepat's recital.

3. Where do Horacio and his sister decide to stay in the dream in Chapter 123?
(a) In a tool shed.
(b) In the drawing room.
(c) In her bedroom.
(d) In the garden.

4. 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.

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

6. What does Pola wonder as she and Horacio make love in Chapter 101?
(a) How he makes love to Maga.
(b) How she can end their affair.
(c) What he does when thy are not together.
(d) Why she has been feeling ill.

7. What does Horacio spread on the ground to protect him from Traveler in Chapter 56?
(a) Tar.
(b) Nails.
(c) Oil.
(d) Ball bearings.

8. Which two Serpent Club members appear incongruously in Chapter 102?
(a) Perico and Guy Monod.
(b) Ronald and Wong.
(c) Babs and Ossip.
(d) Etienne and Maga.

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

10. In Chapter 46, what does Traveler protest that he will never do to Horacio?
(a) Hurt him.
(b) Lend him money.
(c) Ask him to leave.
(d) Forgive him for what he has done to Talita.

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

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

13. What is Chapter 32?
(a) A letter from Maga.
(b) A newspaper article.
(c) A chapter form Morelli's new work.
(d) An inner monologue from Ossip.

14. Why is Horacio terrified in his dream in Chapter 132?
(a) He has been banished from the cafes of Paris.
(b) Ossip is making love to Maga.
(c) He cannot find Maga.
(d) Pola has returned to him from the dead.

15. What request do many of the inmates have as they sign their names in Chapter 51?
(a) They want better food.
(b) They want the hallways painted.
(c) They want the dog killed.
(d) They want Nurse Inez back.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Horacio do between Chapters 56 and 135?

2. What is interspersed with the lines of Maga's book in Chapter 34?

3. What is the only information about the Club's journey to Morelli's flat included in Chapter 113?

4. In Chapter 43, what does Talita reveal about Traveler's strained state of mind?

5. The commentator in Chapter 147 says that what curtails human freedom?

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