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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The elderly man at the botanica calls Pilar the daughter of _____.
(a) Lourdes.
(b) The Sea.
(c) Chango.
(d) Change.

2. Who advises Jorge to buy a house by the sea?
(a) Doctors.
(b) Jorge's mother.
(c) Celia.
(d) Lawyers.

3. Who is a target for bomb threats at the Metropolitan Opera House?
(a) Police officers.
(b) Counter-revolutionaries.
(c) Lourdes.
(d) Cuban ballerinas.

4. What kills Ernesto Brito?
(a) A heart attack.
(b) A car crash.
(c) A fire.
(d) A terminal disease.

5. Who does Felicia want to greet her after her initiation?
(a) Herminia.
(b) The spirits of her dead husbands.
(c) Her mother and children.
(d) People she passes on the street.

6. In Imagining Winter: Daughters of Chango, Jorge begins to lose his time in _____.
(a) Cuba.
(b) Limbo.
(c) New York.
(d) Prison.

7. How does Jorge feel about his daughter's upcoming marriage?
(a) He is hoping she will ask him to help plan the reception.
(b) He is jealous.
(c) He is happy.
(d) He thinks they should wait another year or two.

8. What do the boys do with Pilar's herbs?
(a) Put them in a backpack.
(b) Smoke them.
(c) Scatter them.
(d) Sell them.

9. Why does Lourdes stop eating in Imagining Winter: A Matrix Light?
(a) To protest the regime.
(b) To purify herself.
(c) She cannot afford to buy food.
(d) To lose weight.

10. Why doesn't Celia have time to take care of Felicia?
(a) She is homeschooling Ivanito.
(b) She is busy with her work as a judge.
(c) She is doing more work for El Lider.
(d) She is taking care of Javier.

11. What does Celia realize when she hears shells singing a song in her bones?
(a) That a tidal wave is coming.
(b) That she is lonely.
(c) That shells remind her of Gustavo.
(d) That she will be a grandmother soon.

12. What does Lourdes recall telling tourists, so they would buy her food?
(a) That she was raising money for a church.
(b) That it would bring them good luck.
(c) That her mother was dead.
(d) That she only had a year to live.

13. Where are the boys when Pilar opens her eyes?
(a) They are gone.
(b) In her bedroom.
(c) On the basketball court.
(d) In the tree.

14. By Thanksgiving, Lourdes loses _____ pounds.
(a) 118.
(b) 34.
(c) 12.
(d) 82.

15. What does Felicia request in a note about her burial?
(a) She wants her ashes to be thrown into the sea.
(b) She wants to be buried at night.
(c) She wants to be buried as a santera.
(d) She wants her children to read her favorite poem.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Celia report about Lourdes in her letter to Gustavo?

2. What music does Pilar play after she makes a purchase?

3. What does Celia tell Gustavo has become the joke of the Caribbean?

4. What does Pilar find in her mother's hosiery drawer?

5. What new position allows Lourdes to walk around town?

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