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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Juan Julian doing at the end of act 1?
(a) Stroking Conchita's hair and kissing her shoulder and lips.
(b) Talking to Conchita's husband.
(c) Planning out the steps involved in the ritual.
(d) Reading from the book.

2. What does Palomo long for?
(a) Life beyond the factory.
(b) Material success.
(c) An affair.
(d) A husband for Marela.

3. What do the girls in the ritual bury beneath a tree?
(a) A flower.
(b) Ashes from a relative.
(c) The cigar remnants.
(d) The hair cuttings.

4. Who do the two characters who are not speaking to each other use to help deliver barbs to each other?
(a) Palomo.
(b) Chechy.
(c) Juan.
(d) Marela.

5. Why does Chechy resent lectors?
(a) He lost money gambling to them.
(b) He was denied becoming lector.
(c) He thinks he should be the boss.
(d) His wife ran away with one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is scene 2 set?

2. What keeps Santiago taking chances and losing at gambling?

3. Who performs the burial for Conchita?

4. What does Juan Julian say that the tradition of reading to the workers goes back to?

5. Which of the following themes figures prominently in the final scene of act 1?

(see the answer key)

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