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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who catches Carlos and his friends taunting the young soldiers?
(a) Eugenio's mother.
(b) Louis XVI.
(c) Aunt Lucía.
(d) Marie Antoinette.

2. Who says that "evil [...] is the absence of good"?
(a) The Platonists.
(b) Thomas Aquinas.
(c) Meister Eckhart.
(d) Kant.

3. What does the Jamaican man sell?
(a) Pizza.
(b) Hot dogs.
(c) Pastries.
(d) Milkshakes.

4. How much time passes before Marie Antoinette is about to meet her boys in the United States?
(a) 3-1/2 years.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 7 years.
(d) 6 months.

5. What is the name of the family that temporarily adopts Carlos in Miami?
(a) Potok.
(b) Becquer.
(c) Maupassant.
(d) Chait.

6. Who is "capable of poisoning [Carlos's] relationship with [his] father"?
(a) Pepito.
(b) El Loco.
(c) Ernesto.
(d) Tony.

7. In Chapter 40, what does Carlos describe as his first death?
(a) Being bitten by a scorpion.
(b) Being abused by Ernesto.
(c) Leaving Cuba.
(d) Realizing that his father prefers Ernesto.

8. What is the place where Carlos lives mentally while he waits to be sent to the United States?
(a) Boredom.
(b) Limbo.
(c) Hades.
(d) Hawaii.

9. What do the water tanks face?
(a) The Gulf of Mexico.
(b) Downtown Havana.
(c) Downtown Miami.
(d) The Bay of Pigs.

10. What does Fidel drink in Chapter 36?
(a) Wine.
(b) Milk.
(c) Water.
(d) Whiskey.

11. What does Carlos remember best from the year of school he discusses in Chapter 27?
(a) The way the students disappeared.
(b) His penmanship lessons.
(c) The hair of the girl he liked.
(d) The smell of the chalkboard.

12. In Chapter 38, what is described as "rivers of sludge"?
(a) The runway at the airport.
(b) The runoff from a hard rain.
(c) Roads.
(d) The ocean.

13. What do the boys shoot through their blowguns?
(a) Small pieces of potato.
(b) Pebbles.
(c) Darts.
(d) Dried peas.

14. How is the weather in the beginning of Chapter 38?
(a) Snowy.
(b) Sunny.
(c) Cloudy.
(d) Rainy.

15. What is the name of Uncle Amado's wife?
(a) Regina.
(b) Alejandra.
(c) María.
(d) Sofía.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the oceanic event in Chapter 35?

2. Who has an empty pool under his house?

3. According to Chapter 37, with what is Carlos's Havana "dotted"?

4. Which person would never have noticed Carlos's teacher at the co-ed school?

5. When describing the size of breadfruit, Carlos compares them to what?

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