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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the buffer between the Perez family and the other servants after the election in Chapter 12?
(a) Pablo.
(b) Alejandro.
(c) Beatriz.
(d) Magda.

2. In Chapter 15, why had Batista closed the universities in 1956?
(a) He had never liked professors.
(b) He thought they were too expensive.
(c) He was afraid of the radical ideas coming out of them.
(d) He wanted to re-write the curriculum for history.

3. In Chapter 15, what does Marisol tell Luis about her college professors?
(a) They were all good speakers.
(b) They were never paid enough.
(c) They were not that engaging.
(d) They were very interested in their students.

4. In Chapter 26, who does Pablo work with in Cuba to help reform the legal system?
(a) Luego.
(b) Calderio.
(c) Mortadella.
(d) Bianco.

5. In Chapter 15, what question is Marisol plagued by during her time in Havana?
(a) Whether she could be a journalist while living here.
(b) Whether her great-grandfather had broken the law to make his fortune.
(c) Whether her grandmother really did like Fidel Castro or not.
(d) What might have happened to her and her family if they had never left Cuba.

6. In Chapter 17, what does Luis tell Marisol when she asks if his mother ever thought of leaving Cuba with him?
(a) His mother was jailed for trying to leave once.
(b) His mother had told him they could never risk the dangers of leaving.
(c) They tried to leave once and did not make it.
(d) They never discussed it.

7. What does Pablo tell Marisol about why Elisa thought he was dead?
(a) He told Beatriz to tell Elisa he was alive but he knows she never did.
(b) He sent a telegram to Elisa but he knows it never got to her.
(c) He was stabbed at Santa Clara and left the country afterwards.
(d) He was shot and severely injured at Santa Clara, and in the confusion Guillermo thought he was dead.

8. In Chapter 15, who drives Marisol to the university so she can sit in on one of Luis's classes?
(a) Alejandro.
(b) Cristina.
(c) Ana.
(d) Caridad.

9. In Chapter 17, what do Marisol and Luis do in the hotel?
(a) Order room service.
(b) Watch old movies.
(c) Sit on the balcony and drink rum for hours.
(d) Have sex for the first time.

10. In Chapter 13, what does Ana tell Marisol about the way terrible things happen?
(a) They rarely happen all at once.
(b) They are rarely unbearable.
(c) They often happen only to rich people in Cuba.
(d) They are often very quick and final.

11. In Chapter 21, where has Batista fled?
(a) Antigua.
(b) Miami.
(c) Venezuela.
(d) Santo Domingo.

12. What does Pablo tell Marisol he knows about Ana?
(a) Ana is making plans to leave Cuba illegally.
(b) Elisa loved her very much.
(c) Ana is going to die soon.
(d) Ana is really a spy.

13. In Chapter 19, what does Marisol tell Luis she feels like in Cuba?
(a) A visitor in her own country.
(b) A lover.
(c) A fighter.
(d) A native.

14. In Chapter 15, where do Marisol and Luis kiss for the first time?
(a) At the Malecon.
(b) At the paladar.
(c) At the beach in Veradero.
(d) At the Tropicana.

15. In Chapter 13, what happened to Ana's family's rum business under Castro?
(a) It was nationalized.
(b) Ana's family operated it as always.
(c) It was destroyed.
(d) It was broken into pieces and sold to American owners.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 26, what does Pablo tell Marisol about his interactions with Elisa's father?

2. In Chapter 17, what does Luis tell Marisol about his feelings about the U.S. embargo on Cuba?

3. In Chapter 25, who kills the member of the Perez family who dies?

4. In Chapter 13, what does Luis tell Marisol about his personal life that shocks her?

5. In Chapter 16, what does Pablo give Elisa that was his grandmother's?

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