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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 35, what is the name of the boy who becomes friends with a crucifix in a movie that Carlos has seen?
(a) Miguel.
(b) Jorge.
(c) Marcelino.
(d) Manuel.

2. Which of Carlos's relatives always wears a white suit?
(a) Tony.
(b) Ernesto.
(c) Addison.
(d) Pepito.

3. With what does the villain in Chapter 32 threaten to assault Carlos?
(a) A sharp pencil.
(b) A pair of brass knuckles.
(c) A knife.
(d) A gun.

4. Carlos states that after the incident related in Chapter 32, he became as "paranoid" as which character?
(a) Filo.
(b) Tony.
(c) Fernando.
(d) Marie Antoinette.

5. How many children are eventually exiled from Cuba?
(a) 14,000.
(b) 1,000,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 600.

6. In Chapter 35, what does Carlos call the oceanic event he is witnessing?
(a) A miracle.
(b) A fluke.
(c) A hoax.
(d) A phenomenon.

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

8. What do Carlos and his friends rescue in Chapter 31?
(a) A blowfish.
(b) A parrot fish.
(c) A shark.
(d) A flounder.

9. What is the most noticeable thing about the woman mentioned in the first sentence of Chapter 34?
(a) Her large feet.
(b) Her hat.
(c) Her rear end.
(d) The color of her shirt.

10. According to the reports of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in Chapter 29, who has been arrested?
(a) Pepito.
(b) The Jamaican man.
(c) Filo.
(d) Aunt Lucía.

11. With whom does Carlos see Fidel in person, as discussed in Chapter 38?
(a) Tony.
(b) Filo.
(c) His grandfather Amador.
(d) Louis XVI.

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

13. How high is the cliff over which the boys and Louis XVI frequently go?
(a) Fifty feet.
(b) Fifteen feet.
(c) Two hundred feet.
(d) One hundred feet.

14. What does Carlos experience at night in Chapter 30?
(a) Intense mosquito bites.
(b) Sleep apnea.
(c) Night terrors.
(d) Fevers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What feeling does this chapter express?

2. How many lizards does Carlos kill in Chapter 39?

3. Whose screaming diverts the villain's attention in Chapter 32?

4. What did Aunt Lily receive from her fiancé before he died?

5. In Chapter 38, what is described as "rivers of sludge"?

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