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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the woman in Chapter 34 call the boys?
(a) Brats.
(b) Degenerates.
(c) Hoodlums.
(d) Worms.

2. What feeling does this chapter express?
(a) Peace.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Pain.
(d) Contrition.

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

4. By Chapter 35, which of Carlos's friends is already in the United States?
(a) Ernesto.
(b) Rafael.
(c) Eugenio.
(d) Manuel.

5. What does Carlos do on the morning of the day he leaves Cuba?
(a) He writes a letter to his grandmother.
(b) He throws breadfruit at his friends.
(c) He visits the family pantheon.
(d) He roller skates.

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

7. Approximately how old is the villain in Chapter 32?
(a) Thirty.
(b) Twenty-five.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Twenty.

8. What is the only memory that Carlos is not able to repress through denial?
(a) Lizards.
(b) Louis XVI's preference of art over family.
(c) Seeing Fidel.
(d) Ernesto.

9. As Carlos notes in Chapter 34, who would have called the boys' peashooting incident an act of "caritas"?
(a) Saint Augustine.
(b) Gregory the Great.
(c) Saint Thomas Aquinas.
(d) Saint Jerome.

10. What is the nickname for the place where the boys wait in the airport?
(a) The fishbowl.
(b) The wailing room.
(c) Virgil's Place.
(d) La quincena.

11. Carlos mentions in Chapter 27 that his beloved teacher told his mother he has the nicest what?
(a) Math skills.
(b) Hair.
(c) Penmanship.
(d) Skin.

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

13. What is the nickname of the pool man at the beach club to which Manuel and Rafael belong?
(a) Sherlock.
(b) El Loco.
(c) Popeye.
(d) El Soldado.

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

15. What type of car is Louis XVI driving in Chapter 34?
(a) Ford.
(b) Cadillac.
(c) Toyota.
(d) Plymouth.

Short Answer Questions

1. How high is the cliff over which the boys and Louis XVI frequently go?

2. Who always wears a tuxedo, cape, and top hat?

3. What name does Carlos call Ernesto in Chapter ?

4. What is the name for counter-Revolutionaries, as mentioned in Chapter 29?

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

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