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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator staring at as the story opens?
(a) A sunset.
(b) A book.
(c) A TV.
(d) A picture.

2. What does the Awful Grandmother call Celaya and her cousins when they are all in the house?
(a) The gang.
(b) Al Tu.
(c) Hey You.
(d) Et Tu.

3. What does Celaya's mother say about the Grandmother?
(a) She is an intrusion in their lives.
(b) She is like a mother to her.
(c) She is her inspiration.
(d) She is the glue that keeps the family together.

4. Who is the daughter of the washerwoman?
(a) Cecilia.
(b) Candelaria.
(c) Constance.
(d) Camille.

5. What does Celaya's father tell the Awful Grandmother that he wants to buy for Celaya?
(a) A prom dress.
(b) A silk rebozo.
(c) A fur coat.
(d) A car.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Awful Grandmother's name?

2. How did Narciso attain Soledad for marriage?

3. When the Awful Grandmother was a young girl, her family made ________________.

4. What did Soledad accidentally call Narciso when they first met?

5. What is the narrator's father known as in the family?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Celaya's house and its furnishings.

2. Describe the Awful Grandmother's life after her mother died.

3. Where does Inocencio take the family for a holiday, and who complicates the situation by inviting herself to go along?

4. How do the family stories foreshadow what will come in the novel?

5. How does the Grandmother advise Inocencio about his hysterical wife?

6. Who is Antonieta Araceli and how do the cousins upset her?

7. Why does the family rely on little white lies?

8. How did Soledad find the man she would marry?

9. How does the Grandmother try to hurt Mother by telling her a secret?

10. Explain the nice lifestyle shared by Uncle Baby and Aunty Ninfa.

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