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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the painting called that the narrator hangs in the girl's room?
(a) Mona Lisa.
(b) Senorita.
(c) Lolita.
(d) Figurita.

2. What does the narrator think he is dying from?
(a) A tumor.
(b) Old age.
(c) A heart attack.
(d) Love.

3. What does the narrator wear to sleep with the girl?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Flannel pajamas.
(c) Chinese silk pajamas.
(d) Silk boxers.

4. The narrator refers to fame as a __________.
(a) Gift.
(b) Fat lady.
(c) Horror.
(d) Dead man.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of earrings does the narrator give the girl?

2. Who does the narrator think left the message scrawled in lipstick in the girl's room?

3. What does the narrator bring to the girl after their time apart?

4. The first time the narrator hears the girl's voice she talks about ___.

5. In his sorrow over the cat's fate, what does the narrator compare the cat to in a column?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator imagine happened during the stormy night?

2. How does his time with the girl change the narrator?

3. Why does the narrator trace the sleeping girl's hand?

4. What is the song that the narrator likes to sing to the girl about Delgadina?

5. What is the narrator's phone conversation like with Rosa Cabarcas after her long absence?

6. What happens with the narrator's cat in Chapter 4?

7. What does his love for the girl cause the narrator to see about himself?

8. How does the narrator handle not being able to contact the girl?

9. How does the narrator's feeling for the girl change his column?

10. Why does Rosa Cabarcas pull the narrator from the girl's bed one night?

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