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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Felicia ask her new friend to do for her?
(a) To save her.
(b) To loan her some shells.
(c) To buy her some ice cream.
(d) To do her homework.

2. What divine object does Felicia become fascinated with in Imagining Winter: God's Will?
(a) Shawl.
(b) Statue.
(c) Gold.
(d) Coconut.

3. What does Celia say Javier wins in her letter?
(a) A car.
(b) A bingo game.
(c) A science prize.
(d) A coloring contest.

4. Why does Lourdes stop eating in Imagining Winter: A Matrix Light?
(a) To purify herself.
(b) To protest the regime.
(c) She cannot afford to buy food.
(d) To lose weight.

5. When Pilar reads a book of predictions, Celia asks if she should _____.
(a) Start a business.
(b) Write Gustavo one last letter.
(c) Buy a vacation property.
(d) Follow her passions.

6. In Imagining Winter: Daughters of Chango, Jorge begins to lose his time in _____.
(a) Limbo.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Prison.
(d) New York.

7. What do the boys do with Pilar's herbs?
(a) Sell them.
(b) Put them in a backpack.
(c) Scatter them.
(d) Smoke them.

8. What kills Ernesto Brito?
(a) A fire.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) A terminal disease.
(d) A car crash.

9. Why are Felicia's parents afraid of her new friend's father?
(a) He is a police officer.
(b) He is a known criminal.
(c) They hear he is violent.
(d) He is a high prist of santeria.

10. What does Celia tell Gustavo hurts her about Lourdes?
(a) That her relationship with her father is alive and gay.
(b) That she looks so much like her father.
(c) That she does not clean up after herself.
(d) That she doesn't know how to stand up for herself.

11. What new position allows Lourdes to walk around town?
(a) Auxiliary policewoman.
(b) Crossing guard.
(c) Census worker.
(d) Magazine sales person.

12. What does the elderly man at the botanica give Pilar?
(a) Roses.
(b) Herbs.
(c) A record.
(d) A book.

13. Who makes fun of Lourdes in Imagining Winter: Enough Attitude?
(a) Felicia.
(b) Rufino.
(c) Jorge.
(d) Pilar.

14. What does Felicia's family fear about her sudden peacefulness?
(a) They fear another summer of coconuts.
(b) They fear she is playing with their minds.
(c) They fear someone will try to take advantage of her.
(d) They fear she has lost her edge.

15. After what event in 1978 does Felicia return to her best friend and the Yoruban religion?
(a) Her divorce.
(b) Her disappearance.
(c) The loss of her job.
(d) A miscarriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Felicia's new friend tell her sea shells represent?

2. Celia wonders if her relationship with Gustavo, through letters, is better than watching him _____ and _____.

3. What does Pilar believe with help her understand her grandmother?

4. What does Celia discover on her body, at the end of Imagining Winter: Baskets of Water?

5. Who does Celia say is rid from the country in her last letter?

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