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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What changed most about the girl in their month apart?
(a) Her hair.
(b) Her hands.
(c) Her face.
(d) Her body.

2. The narrator's column becomes ________.
(a) Obsolete.
(b) Obsene.
(c) Angry diatribes.
(d) Love letters.

3. Before the narrator falls asleep on the third night with the girl he _________.
(a) Takes her pulse.
(b) Kisses her lips.
(c) Says a prayer.
(d) Cries.

4. What kind of earrings does the narrator give the girl?
(a) Diamond.
(b) Opal.
(c) Emerald.
(d) Ruby.

5. What does the narrator do with the girl the second night?
(a) Rapes her.
(b) Dresses her.
(c) Sings to her.
(d) Bathes her.

6. Who does the narrator think left the message scrawled in lipstick in the girl's room?
(a) Rosa Cabarcas.
(b) A ghost.
(c) The devil.
(d) The girl.

7. What does the narrator call the newspaper censor?
(a) The Cutter.
(b) All-Seeing Seer.
(c) Abominable No Man.
(d) The Eyes.

8. What does Rosa Cabarcas tell the narrator after he destroys the girl's room?
(a) Go with God.
(b) This is the end.
(c) You will be sorry.
(d) Get out.

9. The narrator begins to enter the brothel through the back door instead of the ___ door.
(a) Front.
(b) Secret.
(c) Forest.
(d) Orchard.

10. The man who dies at Rosa's is a famous __________.
(a) Politician.
(b) Banker.
(c) Singer.
(d) Bull fighter.

11. Who does the narrator compare the girl to after their time apart?
(a) Ant.
(b) Aphrodite.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Angel.

12. In his sorrow over the cat's fate, what does the narrator compare the cat to in a column?
(a) A mouse.
(b) A tiger.
(c) A shadow.
(d) A woman.

13. Who sealed up Rosa's house?
(a) The health department.
(b) The police department.
(c) A mysterious neighbor.
(d) Ministry of state.

14. What does the narrator shout at Rosa Cabarcas after she tries to explain the girl's appearance?
(a) Slut.
(b) My love.
(c) Damned whores.
(d) Lies.

15. Where does the narrator find a message scrawled in lipstick in the girl's room?
(a) On the floor.
(b) On the sheet.
(c) On the mirror.
(d) On the wall.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rosa Cabarcas suggest the narrator do after he destroys the girls room?

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

3. What does the editor of the newspaper call the narrator in defending his new columns?

4. What kind of music does the narrator listen to when he is missing the girl?

5. Rosa Cabarcas offers the narrator another girl whose father wants __________.

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