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

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

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

4. What does Celia keep that her lover gave her?
(a) A dozen roses.
(b) Pearl earrings.
(c) An engagement ring.
(d) A scarf.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What foods does Felicia insist will purify, in Ordinary Seductions: The Fire Between Them?

3. Who does Ivanito most resemble?

4. Who wakens Pilar by the pool?

5. How does Rufino explain the voices Lourdes hears?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Celia imply that the mental asylum is a refuge?

2. How does Celia know her husband has died?

3. Why does Lourdes fire her new employee at the bakery?

4. What commitment does Celia make after Jorge dies?

5. How does Lourdes connect with her husband?

6. What does Ester Ugarte accuse Loli Regalado of in Imagining Winter: The Meaning of Shells?

7. What is significant about Celia's son being born with a caul?

8. How does Felicia attempt to kill herself and her son, Ivanito?

9. What are Pilar's supernatural gifts?

10. How does Rufino bond with his daughter Pilar?

(see the answer keys)

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