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

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

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

4. How many children are involved in the breadfruit fight?
(a) Ten.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the children's acquaintances eats breadfruit voluntarily?

2. What is Carlos doing at the beginning of Chapter 40?

3. Where is the pool that Carlos is observing in Chapter 31?

4. How many children are eventually exiled from Cuba?

5. What is the nickname for the place where the boys wait in the airport?

Short Essay Questions

1. As discussed in Chapter 37, why does Carlos feel shame about his upbringing?

2. As discussed in Chapter 28, who are the Pioneers and what do they stand for?

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

4. According to Chapter 27, how would Plato have reacted to Carlos's female teacher? How would Kant have reacted?

5. Describe the Aquarium of the Revolution.

6. According to Chapter 31, what happens when Carlos is swimming in Minnesota?

7. How does the breadfruit war end?

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

9. Describe Carlos's first death.

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

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