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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. How much money per week does Maria la O make?
(a) $40.
(b) $400.
(c) $30.
(d) $200.

2. What song plays for Little Miss Havana's entrance?
(a) "Cuando sali de Cuba."
(b) "Cuban Corretega."
(c) "The Cuban Salsa."
(d) "Cuando sali de Mexico."

3. Which character stays after the other Senoritas leave to take more bows?
(a) Senorita #1.
(b) Maria la O.
(c) Senorita #3.
(d) Charo.

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

5. Who says, "I have been invented for a photograph"?
(a) Woman 1.
(b) The Mother.
(c) The MC.
(d) Woman 3.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the MC ask Miss Conchita Banana?

3. What brothel does Don Jose mention in Act 1?

4. Who does the MC introduce as from the sandy beaches of Florida?

5. Why doesn't Miss Commonwealth have a boyfriend yet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Don Jose react when the Midwife tells him he has a daughter?

2. What does Martyr 2 say about the light in her eyes?

3. What does Martyr 1 tell the Girl about?

4. What do the Women see in each other at the end of the play? What does the Girl do?

5. How does the scene change after Miss Commonwealth exits?

6. What do the Senoritas and the Nun do when one of the Senoritas confesses to going "all the way"?

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

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

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

10. Why does the girl who Miss Commonwealth speaks of always smile?

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