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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ordinary Seductions: The House on Palmas Street.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Celia agree to do if Gustavo does not respond to her letters?
(a) She must contact Gustavo's wife.
(b) She must let the santera set her up with someone new.
(c) She must visit Gustavo in person.
(d) She must marry Jorge.

2. What unique talent does Pilar have?
(a) She can read lips.
(b) She can fly.
(c) She can recall everything that has happened to her.
(d) She can make rabbits disappear.

3. Who does Pilar talk to, at length, on a bus ride?
(a) A ghost.
(b) A group of orphans.
(c) The bus driver.
(d) A woman.

4. What type of work did Jorge do before the revolution?
(a) He sold electric brooms and portable fans.
(b) He sold cars.
(c) He cooked for El Lider.
(d) He was a fisherman.

5. What causes Felicia's health to deteriorate?
(a) Her inability to deal with the loss of her father.
(b) She has syphilis.
(c) Food poisoning.
(d) The break up of her marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Gustavo Sierra de Armas from?

2. Who does Celia see emerge from the light and come toward her?

3. Who does Pilar see her father with, in Ordinary Seductions: Going South?

4. Where does Pilar actually buy a ticket to?

5. What do the nuns tell Lourdes over the phone about her father?

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