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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Don Jaime tell his students they must hold the grip on their foil?
(a) As if they holding a baby.
(b) As if they were trying to crush a stone.
(c) As if they had a bird in their hand.
(d) As if they were throttling their enemy.

2. What do Don Jaime and the Marquis always drink after their bout?
(a) Whisky.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Vodka.
(d) Sherry

3. What does Don Jaime think the artifacts in his fencing gallery are symbols of?
(a) Love and hurt.
(b) Memories and regrets.
(c) Fun times.
(d) Another life.

4. How does the author describe the journalist's smile?
(a) Loving.
(b) Manly
(c) Aristocratic.
(d) Olympian.

5. What does Don Jaime do during the weekend?
(a) Sleeps.
(b) Draws.
(c) Reads.
(d) Writes.

6. Why does Don Luis say he chose Don Jaime to hide the file?
(a) He rarely talks to other people.
(b) His home is difficult to break into.
(c) He is the only honest man he knows.
(d) Don Jaime can defend himself.

7. Who is Espartero always quoting?
(a) Kierkgaard.
(b) Heine.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Kafka.

8. What is masculine about Dona Adela de Otera's face?
(a) Her strong chin.
(b) Her broken nose.
(c) Her blacked out eye.
(d) A scar at her mouth.

9. What drink does Don Jaime give Dona Adela to calm her down?
(a) Vodka.
(b) Brandy.
(c) Water.
(d) Sherry.

10. Who does Don Jaime say is not a gentleman?
(a) God.
(b) Dona Adela.
(c) Don Luis.
(d) Jesus.

11. Who should a fencing bout be between?
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Men of honor.
(c) Men old enough to understand.
(d) Men with foolish abandon.

12. By what name does the Count call Don Jaime?
(a) Jack.
(b) Maestro.
(c) Master.
(d) Foil.

13. How does Don Jaime react to Romero's declaration that he is love with a married woman?
(a) He hits him.
(b) He laughs at him.
(c) He ignores him.
(d) He berates him.

14. In which city did Don Jaime have his second duel?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Rome.
(d) Berlin.

15. Why did Don Jaime fight the second duel?
(a) The man was his rival in love.
(b) The man had killed Don Jaime's friend.
(c) The man had publicly criticized Don Jaime.
(d) The man had criticized Montespan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Don Jaime receive a note from at he beginning of this section?

2. What has Don Jaime always dreamed of inventing?

3. How does Romero get by without a job?

4. Why does Don Jaime think that Dona Adela hurries away when she sees him?

5. What religious act does Don Jaime compare fencing to?

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