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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. Where does Pilar plan to travel?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) London.
(c) Cuba.
(d) The Hamptons.

2. At what time of Celia's life does she go to live with Tia Alicia?
(a) When Tia Alica gets sick.
(b) When her parents die.
(c) After Jorge dies.
(d) When her parents get a divorce.

3. Why does Celia name her son after her father?
(a) She thinks he will look like her father when he grows up.
(b) A santera tells her to.
(c) To keep a promise.
(d) She draws his name out of a hat.

4. Why do Lourdes and Rufino originally leave Cuba?
(a) Rufino is offered a job elsewhere.
(b) Lourdes wants to live some place cold.
(c) They are worried about the economy in Cuba.
(d) They want to escape soldiers.

5. Who does Pilar visit in Miami?
(a) A psychic.
(b) Blanquito.
(c) Rufino.
(d) Felicia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Lourdes, in Ordinary Seductions: A Grove of Lemons, when Rufino is out of town?

2. What does Celia do when she leaves the asylum?

3. Who arrives in Santa Teresa del Mar, screaming for Celia?

4. What does Celia plan to do if she has a boy?

5. How do Celia's feelings change for Jorge in Ordinary Seductions: Celia's Letters: 1935-1940?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to rumors, why have yanquis ringed the island with nuclear poison?

2. Why must a goat be sacrificed to help Felicia?

3. How does Lourdes connect with her husband?

4. What does Felicia realize about her mother's attraction to El Lider?

5. What does Jorge reveal about Pilar when Lourdes is on her walk home from the bakery?

6. Why does Celia imply that the mental asylum is a refuge?

7. What agreement for marriage do Jorge and Celia make?

8. How does Celia describe the environment that Lourdes was born in?

9. Why does Celia say her father was murdered?

10. Why does Jorge allow his sister and mother to terrorize Celia?

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