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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 did Soledad accidentally call Narciso when they first met?
(a) Gnome.
(b) Potato.
(c) Evil.
(d) Mud.

2. What does the Awful Grandmother call Celaya and her cousins when they are all in the house?
(a) Al Tu.
(b) The gang.
(c) Hey You.
(d) Et Tu.

3. At what type of business do the narrator's father and uncles work?
(a) Furniture.
(b) Hardware.
(c) Grocery.
(d) Body shop.

4. What does Celaya's mother tell her father when he catches her?
(a) She has a bad migraine.
(b) She has fallen in love with someone else.
(c) Their marriage is over.
(d) She doesn't want to go home yet.

5. Who was Narciso's mother?
(a) Senora Regina.
(b) Senora Carlotta.
(c) Senora Carmina.
(d) Senora Maria.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is frightened of the water in Acapulco?

2. Who is the Awful Grandmother's washerwoman?

3. What is the narrator staring at as the story opens?

4. What does Celaya's mother say about the Grandmother?

5. Who is Celaya's father?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is a rebozo and what value does it have in Mexican culture?

3. Why does Celaya's afternoon out with her mother turn into a family crisis?

4. How does the Grandmother advise Inocencio about his hysterical wife?

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

6. What kindness does the Grandfather show Celaya when the Grandmother ridicules her for not eating the mole?

7. Describe the Awful Grandmother's life after her mother died.

8. What are the circumstances that have Soledad moving into the Reyes household with Narciso's family?

9. What does the family do when they arrive in Acapulco?

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

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