Reading Check and Short Answer Questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

Reading Check

1. How must Felipe Montero navigate the stairs in Señora Llorente’s house?

2. What unnerving sight in the side garden does Felipe see from the skylight?

3. What is the only decoration in Aura’s bedroom?

4. What does Felipe see Señora Llorente doing through the crack in the door?

5. What action are Aura and Señora Llorente simultaneously doing that alarms Felipe?

6. What does Felipe discover in the photographs?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What strikes Felipe as unusual about the location of the job advertisement? Describe how the exterior setting (the street and surrounding buildings) contrasts with the interior of the location.

2. Describe what duties Señora Llorente asks of Felipe. How does his initial response change upon meeting the woman’s companion?

3. What are Felipe’s working conditions at Señora Llorente’s house? What is his plan for working in the following weeks?

4. What distresses Felipe about Aura’s living conditions? How do Señor Llorente’s memoirs help Felipe draw a conclusion about the truth of the household?

5. Describe Felipe’s evolving physical relationship with Aura. How does his first night with her compare to their second night together?

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