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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 holiday is mentioned in the first sentence of Chapter 2?
(a) Easter.
(b) New Year's.
(c) Cinco de Mayo.
(d) Christmas.

2. According to Chapter 4, which people always read dirty magazines?
(a) Street vendors.
(b) Police officers.
(c) Chauffeurs.
(d) Postal workers.

3. What is the Spanish word for disillusionment?
(a) Camiseta.
(b) Ejecución.
(c) Desengaño.
(d) Cohete.

4. How do most of the men who are in the car in Chapter 26 die?
(a) In the Bay of Pigs invasion.
(b) Of pneumonia.
(c) By a firing squad after the militia stops the car.
(d) Of old age.

5. What is the name of Fernando's cousin, the one who sets off bombs to act against Fidel's government?
(a) Miguelito.
(b) Jorge.
(c) Josef.
(d) Filo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who runs the school called La Salle del Vedado?

2. According to the students in Chapter 4, where did Adam and Eve live?

3. From what country did the ancestors of Carlos's mother come?

4. What is a paredón?

5. Whose house does Carlos visit in the beginning of Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the game the boys play with the "pesticide Jeep"?

2. Explain what happens when people begin to shout "paredón."

3. How do Louis XVI's staff members treat him and his family? Why?

4. Why does Carlos wish he could have been a Viking?

5. Why does Louis XVI wish he could have afforded to be Pilate in the church murals?

6. What happened to Carlos's great-great-grandmother Butrón-Múgicas?

7. Summarize the contents of the Cuban history lesson the boys receive at the beginning of Chapter 4.

8. Explain one of the lessons on hell that is described in Chapter 19.

9. Who is Mel Blanc, and how does Carlos feel about him?

10. According to Chapter 7, what happened to Cuba after Fidel came to power?

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