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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 37 - 72).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Adam worried he is incapable of?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Loving someone.
(c) Being a good son.
(d) Having a profound experience of art.

2. What is the first unkind thing Isabel says to Adam?
(a) Telling him his poetry is bad.
(b) Telling him the people of Iraq are looking forward to hearing his poem on Franco and his economy.
(c) Telling him he drinks too much.
(d) Telling him he eats too much.

3. Who comes to Adam's reading with Maria Jose?
(a) His mother.
(b) A few other fellows.
(c) No one.
(d) His brother.

4. Who wrote the "Selected Poems" Adam usually carries?
(a) Maria Rilke.
(b) Emily Dickenson.
(c) John Ashberry.
(d) Robert Louis Stevenson.

5. Why does Adam say he wrongly laughed at Isabel's story?
(a) He does not hear very well.
(b) His Spanish is bad.
(c) He has anxiety disorder.
(d) He is drunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name Adam uses for the things he rolls and smokes?

2. Where is the gallery Adam reads at?

3. What is Tomas's third poem that Adam hears him read?

4. What does Adam think almost every Spanish movie made since 1975 is about?

5. What is Adam's favorite cafe?

(see the answer key)

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