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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Section 3, "Squeezed into the pajamas of a thinner time...".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cienfuegos urge the city to do?
(a) Join together and raise itself up again.
(b) Secede from Mexico.
(c) Call upon the United States for assistance.
(d) Ask the government for assistance.

2. What do most of the characters do after the party?
(a) Stay in a hotel.
(b) Stay at Bobo's.
(c) Sleep late or lay in bed.
(d) Meet for an early breakfast.

3. Why does she buy a cigarette holder?
(a) To give to her husband.
(b) To hold her cigarettes.
(c) To imitate them.
(d) To donate to charity.

4. On whom does Norma utterly depend to raise her in the social hierarchy?
(a) Bobo.
(b) Federico Robles.
(c) Prince Vampa.
(d) Pimpelina de Ovanda.

5. To whom does Zamacona lecture?
(a) A crowd of blue collar workers.
(b) The younger, eager crowd of writers.
(c) A class of grade school children.
(d) The old, wealthy aristocrats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rodrigo lament not having?

2. What can Mexico not shake?

3. Who does Gladys pass?

4. What is an "eagle without wings"?

5. What does the quick portrait of Gladys show?

(see the answer key)

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