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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 do Conchita and her husband discuss?
(a) Marela's new love interest.
(b) The new lector.
(c) Santiago's gambling problem.
(d) Chechy's reaction to Juan.

2. How does Chechy feel about his behavior?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Ashamed.
(c) Proud.
(d) Angered.

3. Why doesn't Santiago want to face Chechy?
(a) He knows that Chechy slept with his wife.
(b) He knows the story bothers him.
(c) He doesn't like Chechy.
(d) He doesn't have the money to repay the loan.

4. Which of the following themes figures prominently in the final scene of act 1?
(a) Deception.
(b) Love.
(c) Nature.
(d) God.

5. Who performs the burial for Conchita?
(a) Her son.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is arriving during act 1, scene 1?

2. Which of the following terms is the best definition of a superstition?

3. Which of the following describes the types of tasks workers in the factory perform?

4. What does Juan Julian say he would like to learn?

5. What does Conchita want to have for herself?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does act 2 scene 3 open?

2. What plans in regards to the ritual does Conchita share with Juan Julian and what does he offer?

3. What does Marela indicate is the responsibility of the living?

4. What ritual does Conchita explain to Juan Julian?

5. What does Marela propose about Juan Julian?

6. What and why does Santiago carve something into the sole of his half-brother's shoe?

7. What happens that causes Santiago and Ofelia to communicate with each other?

8. What do Ofelia and her daughters discuss after Chechy leaves?

9. What do Conchita and Palomo debate about and what in the novel does she compare her husband's feelings about?

10. How is information from the book heard while Juan Julian and Conchita make love?

(see the answer keys)

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