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Gabriel García Márquez, One of These Days

Gabriel García Márquez, One of These Days

Read One of These Days and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. Aurelio Escovar is

a dentist without a degree.

deaf.

blind.

all of the above.

2. When Aurelio Escovar refuses to pull the mayor’s tooth, what does the mayor threaten to do?

shoot his son

shoot him

run him out of town

kill him with his bare hands

3. What reason does Aurelio Escovar give for not using anesthetic?

He hates the mayor.

There is none left.

The mayor has an abscess.

It is illegal.

4. What does Aurelio Escovar say as he pulls the tooth?

“Now you will pay for our twenty dead men.”

“I’m afraid this is the wrong tooth.”

“This is the first of twenty teeth I’ll pull.”

“I neglected to sterilize these instruments.”

5. Aurelio Escovar pulls

the infected tooth.

one tooth for each lost man.

all the mayor’s teeth.

two uninfected teeth.