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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is helping Tita make the wedding cake for Pedro and his new wife?
(a) Mama
(b) Rosaura
(c) Nacha
(d) Gertrudis

2. What is the youngest daughter supposed to do when her Mama gets older?
(a) Read to her
(b) Build her a separate house
(c) Move out
(d) Take care of her

3. What does Tita use to help fatten up the main ingredient for her recipe?
(a) Pecans
(b) Almonds
(c) Walnuts
(d) Sunflower seeds

4. What does Tita miss about the doves in the dovecote?
(a) The way they'd sit on her arms
(b) Their feathers
(c) Their cooing
(d) The sight

5. Tita refuses to throw away the ___________, and decides to use them in a recipe.
(a) Bad olives
(b) Roses
(c) Quail feathers
(d) Letters

6. Tita and the old woman both love the ____________ which allows them to speak without saying a word.
(a) Kitchen
(b) Setting
(c) Summer
(d) Pain

7. Tita is no longer the __________ that the doctor remembers.
(a) Weak peasant
(b) Ugly woman
(c) Cook
(d) Little girl

8. The _________ plans to visit the house every day in order to see the baby.
(a) Rebel
(b) Doctor
(c) Mayor
(d) Soldier

9. The heat from Gertrudis' body ignites the wood of the ___________.
(a) Tub
(b) Kitchen
(c) Hallway
(d) Bedroom

10. What does Tita refuse to do as she is in such deep grief?
(a) Speak
(b) Talk about Pedro
(c) Move
(d) Laugh

11. Life is the delight of __________, according to Tita.
(a) Love
(b) Family
(c) Happiness
(d) Food

12. John dresses Tita like ____________ and bathes her as she recovers.
(a) A maid
(b) A woman
(c) A child
(d) A man

13. Who has to help Rosaura deliver the baby on her own?
(a) Gertrudis
(b) Chechna
(c) Tita
(d) Mama

14. Where does Mama Elena decide she wants Tita taken?
(a) Church for confession
(b) Convent
(c) A new family
(d) Insane asylum

15. Each person has a box of matches inside and all it takes it he right amount of _________ for them to spark.
(a) Heat
(b) Motivation
(c) Truth
(d) Understanding

Short Answer Questions

1. Tita needs to fatten up the _______________ before she can use them in a recipe.

2. Where does John end up taking Tita instead of to the asylum?

3. What does Tita sob on that she had been creating for her married life?

4. Who finds out that the man agreed to marry the sister in order to be close to his real love?

5. What is Tita looking for when she is wandering around the garden at the beginning of the chapter?

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