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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 is the narrator's father known as in the family?
(a) El Tarzan.
(b) Senor Busybody.
(c) Baby Face.
(d) Capitano.

2. What is the narrator staring at as the story opens?
(a) A TV.
(b) A sunset.
(c) A book.
(d) A picture.

3. To what does Celaya compare the color of the skin of Candelaria?
(a) Bittersweet chocolate.
(b) Milk.
(c) Caramel.
(d) Honey.

4. What is a standard practice of Celaya's family?
(a) Overdrawing bank accounts.
(b) Telling little white lies.
(c) Singing while cleaning.
(d) Praying before dinner.

5. To what country did the narrator's family make an annual trip?
(a) Canada.
(b) Italy.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city did the narrator's father and uncles work?

2. What does the Grandmother say about Zoira to Inocencia?

3. How did Narciso attain Soledad for marriage?

4. What is the narrator's name?

5. Who is married to Uncle Fat Face?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Celaya's house and its furnishings.

2. Who is Antonieta Araceli and how do the cousins upset her?

3. Describe the childhood of the Awful Grandmother and what role rebozos played in her life.

4. To what location did Celaya's family travel each year and why did they travel as a family?

5. How is the Grandmother conflicted by what she wants for her family and what she is physically able to provide?

6. How do the family stories foreshadow what will come in the novel?

7. How was Senora Regina both kind and cruel to Soledad?

8. Who is Candelaria?

9. How did Soledad find the man she would marry?

10. Where does Inocencio take the family for a holiday, and who complicates the situation by inviting herself to go along?

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