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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Celia do when she leaves the asylum?
(a) She vacations with her family.
(b) She looks for a job.
(c) She buys a ticket to Spain.
(d) She sacrifices a goat.

2. Where does Pilar actually buy a ticket to?
(a) Cuba.
(b) Las Vegas.
(c) Miami.
(d) London.

3. What type of people does Celia say she relates to?
(a) Wealthy people.
(b) Dead people.
(c) Religious people.
(d) Negative people.

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

5. What does Luz recall her father's hands holding?
(a) Ivanito.
(b) The smallest threads.
(c) Shells.
(d) Ladybugs.

6. Who does Celia tell Gustavo saved her?
(a) Felicia.
(b) Tia Alicia.
(c) Pilar.
(d) Jorge.

7. Who is the civil trial between in Imagining Winter: The Meaning of Shells?
(a) Beny More and Ibrahim Ferrer.
(b) Milagro and Luz.
(c) Felicia and Ivanito.
(d) Ester Ugarte and Loli Regalado.

8. How does Celia respond when her lover leaves Cuba?
(a) She is relieved.
(b) She is disgusted.
(c) She gets depressed.
(d) She feels guilty.

9. Who does Celia recall talking to late at night before falling asleep?
(a) Jorge.
(b) Lourdes.
(c) Pilar.
(d) Gustavo.

10. What are the names of the fishing boats Celia sees?
(a) The Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria.
(b) Wynken, Blynken, and Nod.
(c) Boats A, B and C.
(d) Charles and Eddie.

11. What does Felicia put in the cake icing?
(a) Smashed pills.
(b) Toothpaste.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Rat poison.

12. Who comes to the ranch while Lourdes is pregnant with her second child?
(a) Cowboys.
(b) Felicia.
(c) Celia and Jorge.
(d) Soldiers.

13. Why does Lourdes fire her new employee?
(a) The woman lied on her resume.
(b) The woman takes extremely long breaks.
(c) The woman steals from her.
(d) The woman has eyes for Rufino.

14. Why does Celia want to leave New York?
(a) To escape her life.
(b) To visit colleges.
(c) To pursue a singing career.
(d) To start her own bakery.

15. Who arrives in Santa Teresa del Mar, screaming for Celia?
(a) Ivanito.
(b) Lordes.
(c) Javier.
(d) Felicia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What keeps Celia writing letters to Gustavo?

2. What type of work did Jorge do before the revolution?

3. Who did Celia fall in love with before she met Jorge?

4. Where is Felicia marching at the start of Imagining Winter: The Meaning of Shells?

5. What does Jorge say frightens him about Celia?

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