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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Milagros describe as difficult ("un arte nada facil") for the owners of boarding houses?
(a) Making sure clients keep the place clean so as to avoid attracting mice.
(b) Creating meals that satisfy everyone's tastes.
(c) To find and select clients.
(d) Making sure her young children are not negatively influenced by the presence of her guests.

2. Who laughs with Mrs. Milagros as she looks at Camilo's card?
(a) Her daughters.
(b) Her sister.
(c) The letter carrier.
(d) Other boarding house guests.

3. At the end of Part I, Chapter 10, who shouts out to Mrs. Milagros?
(a) Reguel.
(b) Eufrasia.
(c) The police.
(d) Camilo.

4. How do guests organize for meal times?
(a) They all eat at the same table.
(b) They eat at a picnic table in the yard.
(c) They don't eat together since the kitchen is being remodeled.
(d) They eat in their own rooms.

5. What does the investigator ask Mrs. Milagros?
(a) If she left the house the night that Rosaura arrived.
(b) If she ever noticed something strange about Rosaura.
(c) If she had access to poisons.
(d) If she knew that Camilo had a criminal history.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Milagros hope happens with Rosaura?

2. What form does the narrative in Part II, Chapter 11 take?

3. How does the vocabulary in Part II, Chapter 11, differ from earlier chapters?

4. What does Rosaura's final letter to Camilo say?

5. Why does Camilo claim that he should leave Rosaura?

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