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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "cocuyos" mean?
(a) Ants.
(b) Firecrackers.
(c) Dragonflies.
(d) Fireflies.

2. What do the Cuban children call their birthday cakes?
(a) Bollos.
(b) Tortas.
(c) Pasteles.
(d) Keikes.

3. Who wakes the children in Chapter 29?
(a) Louis XVI.
(b) Inocencia.
(c) Nilda.
(d) Marie Antoinette.

4. As discussed in Chapter 26, what is in the trunk of the car Carlos is envisioning?
(a) Birthday balloons.
(b) Anti-Communist propaganda.
(c) Firearms.
(d) Hard-boiled eggs.

5. To what sin is Carlos especially prone, as described in Chapter 14?
(a) Lying.
(b) Blasphemy.
(c) Theft.
(d) Gluttony.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the beginning of Chapter 6, whom does Carlos imagine at the window?

2. Which person in Carlos's church is the most adept at using a fan?

3. How long does Carlos have to wait between eating lunch and going swimming?

4. When Aunt Lucía is dying in a nursing home, what does Carlos bring her?

5. Who takes the passport photos for Carlos and Tony?

(see the answer key)

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