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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Celia do when she leaves the asylum?
(a) She looks for a job.
(b) She buys a ticket to Spain.
(c) She sacrifices a goat.
(d) She vacations with her family.

2. What type of work does Felicia do when she meets Hugo?
(a) She is a waitress.
(b) She is a dancer.
(c) She is a teacher.
(d) She is a writer.

3. Who predicts that Celia will survive hard times and live by the water?
(a) A santera.
(b) Gustavo.
(c) A psychic friend.
(d) Celia's great aunt.

4. What type of people does Celia say she relates to?
(a) Wealthy people.
(b) Religious people.
(c) Dead people.
(d) Negative people.

5. Who does Pilar talk to, at length, on a bus ride?
(a) The bus driver.
(b) A ghost.
(c) A group of orphans.
(d) A woman.

6. Why does Celia feel Jorge betrays her?
(a) He puts Celia in the asylum.
(b) He leaves her for another woman.
(c) He destroys a letter she wrote to Gustavo.
(d) He tells everyone she is a bad mother.

7. What did a santera once see on Celia's palm?
(a) A wet landscape.
(b) Death.
(c) A rainbow.
(d) More children.

8. What does Jorge say frightens him about Celia?
(a) Her cooking.
(b) Her smile.
(c) Her attitude.
(d) Her spending.

9. Where does Pilar actually buy a ticket to?
(a) Miami.
(b) Las Vegas.
(c) Cuba.
(d) London.

10. Who is Pilar able to communicate telepathically with?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) Her boyfriend.
(d) Her elderly neighbor.

11. Whose voice does Lourdes hear in her head?
(a) Her daughter.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her aunt.

12. Who checks Celia into a mental asylum?
(a) Celia.
(b) Jorge.
(c) Jorge's sister and mother.
(d) Gustavo.

13. Why does Lourdes fire her new employee?
(a) The woman steals from her.
(b) The woman lied on her resume.
(c) The woman has eyes for Rufino.
(d) The woman takes extremely long breaks.

14. Who does Ivanito most resemble?
(a) Hugo.
(b) Celia.
(c) His sisters.
(d) Felicia.

15. What does Celia plan to do if she has a boy?
(a) She will become a santera.
(b) She will name him Gustavo.
(c) She will change her ways.
(d) She will find Gustavo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object does Celia worry about after a tidal wave?

2. What smell is in the air when Celia runs to the beach?

3. Where does Pilar plan to travel?

4. How do Celia's feelings change for Jorge in Ordinary Seductions: Celia's Letters: 1935-1940?

5. Who does Celia take with her to see Jorge?

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