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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through “Meeting Elise” .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Linda reads Nam’s story at the coffee shop, what does she tell him he is doing to his father in order to forgive him for abusing him?
(a) Lying about him.
(b) Sugarcoating his story.
(c) Making him seem too nice.
(d) Romanticizing his past.

2. Who did Hernando kill after he and Ron had been taken away during a football game?
(a) A prominent drug dealer.
(b) A police officer.
(c) El Padre.
(d) A judge.

3. Who does Nam awake to find standing outside his bedroom door?
(a) His father.
(b) His mother.
(c) His girlfriend.
(d) His friend.

4. What is one thing Nam does to try to break his writer’s block?
(a) Take drugs.
(b) Write in the bathtub.
(c) Write in his car.
(d) Write in the pool.

5. What is the main character struggling to stand up in at the beginning of “Meeting Elise”?
(a) The bathtub.
(b) His window.
(c) His bedroom.
(d) The bus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Luis ask the narrator when he has his gun pointing at his target’s face?

2. What does Nam’s father do at Nam’s apartment, despite Nam asking him to stop?

3. Why is the window in Claudia’s house missing?

4. What would Nam’s father do when Nam was a child if he deviated from his intense summer study schedule?

5. How old was Olivia when she and Henry first met and she modeled for him?

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