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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the narrator imagine is helping him clean up from the storm?
(a) The cat.
(b) The girl.
(c) His mother.
(d) Rosa Cabarcas.

2. What does the narrator do for the first time with a woman the night he meets the girl?
(a) Be kind.
(b) Stay dressed.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Cry.

3. Who does the narrator think he sees in his bed on the night before his 91st birthday?
(a) The girl.
(b) Rosa.
(c) Ximena.
(d) His mother.

4. Who carved the narrator's writing desk?
(a) His grandfather.
(b) His father.
(c) His uncle.
(d) Himself.

5. Who is singing at the end of the novel?
(a) Damiana.
(b) Rosa Cabarcas.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Delgadina.

Short Answer Questions

1. What changed most about the girl in their month apart?

2. What day does the narrator's column appear in the paper?

3. Whose poems is the narrator finally able to translate in the midst of his illness?

4. What movies turned the narrator away from the cinema for good?

5. What does the girl give the narrator for Christmas?

(see the answer key)

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