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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. Where does Maria la O go after the Senoritas' song?
(a) A hospital room.
(b) Her dressing room.
(c) The ocean.
(d) A nursery.

2. Who arrives as the Midwife speaks to the audience in Act 1?
(a) The Mother.
(b) The Father.
(c) The Girl.
(d) The Son.

3. Whose full name is Fina de la Garza del Vedado y Miramar?
(a) Miss Mexico.
(b) Miss Commonwealth.
(c) Little Miss Havana.
(d) Maria la O.

4. Who is Woman 3 previously in the beauty pageant?
(a) Miss Commonwealth.
(b) Miss Conchita Banana.
(c) Little Miss Havana.
(d) Miss Chili Tamale.

5. What does Miss Conchita Banana throw into the audience?
(a) Her boa.
(b) Her tiara.
(c) Bananas.
(d) Her sash.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do you need to catch a man, according to Miss Commonwealth?

2. What are Senoritas "always ready for" according to the song?

3. What thrusts itself into the eyes of the girl who goes to see the ocean?

4. Who created Miss Conchita Banana?

5. In the song the Senoritas sing, what do they have in their souls?

Short Essay Questions

1. What titles has the Beauty Queen held? What is her dream?

2. What does the Man tell the Researcher that his wife does all day?

3. What happens in the dance scene? How is the Man dressed in this scene?

4. Who enters as the Girl is mimicking the Catch Women? What does she say?

5. Who is Miss Commonwealth? What does she sing about? What are her goals?

6. How is the setting for the play described? How do the scene changes take place?

7. What does the Midwife tell Maria la O as she is leaving? Why?

8. Who enters with the Priest? What do they do?

9. Who "catches" the Man, of the Catch Women? What does the Girl do after they exit?

10. What does the Son tell the Mother about his girlfriend? What does the Mother reply to him?

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