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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. As Chapter 39 opens, what is the crowd calling Marie Antoinette?
(a) Spic.
(b) Peg-Leg.
(c) Tramp.
(d) Idiot.

2. As mentioned in Chapter 40, where does Carlos eventually meet his friend Rafa?
(a) Seattle.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Paris.
(d) Miami.

3. As Chapter 37 discusses, with what object does Carlos work when he takes a summer job at Marie Antoinette's factory?
(a) Screws.
(b) Plastic tubing.
(c) Iron filings.
(d) Gears.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many women live in the beautiful house of which Chapter 36 speaks?

2. Which of Carlos's relatives always wears a white suit?

3. What does the sound in the beginning of Chapter 29 turn out to be?

4. What are the young Revolutionary soldiers-in-training called?

5. What name does Carlos call Ernesto in Chapter ?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Carlos want to request a Coke as his first act in the United States?

2. Describe breadfruit.

3. Describe the young man who accosts Carlos and Jorge in Chapter 32.

4. Describe the Communist propaganda that Carlos hears in Chapter 38.

5. Describe the miraculous event that Carlos witnesses in Chapter 35.

6. Describe Carlos's first death.

7. Describe Filo's situation in the auditorium, as Carlos relates in Chapter 29.

8. How does Louis XVI react to the angry lady in Chapter 34, and how does he feel afterward?

9. How does El Loco become the hero of Chapter 32?

10. What is Ernesto's family history?

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