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

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

3. Where is Gustavo Sierra de Armas from?
(a) Madrid.
(b) San Jose.
(c) Tegucigalpa.
(d) Granada.

4. What do Celia's daughters fear they will never get to leave?
(a) Each other.
(b) Home.
(c) Boarding school.
(d) Cuba.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Celia name her son after her father?

2. What does Celia do on the 11th of every month for 25 years?

3. What does Jorge say frightens him about Celia?

4. At what time does Lourdes go to the bakery to prepare pastries and doughs?

5. What does Celia guard at the start of Ordinary Seductions: Ocean Blue?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is significant about Celia's son being born with a caul?

2. What happens to Celia after her parents divorce?

3. Why does Celia practice the smiles of her youth?

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

5. What happens when the soldiers return to the ranch?

6. How does Felicia attempt to kill herself and her son, Ivanito?

7. What are Pilar's supernatural gifts?

8. What does Ester Ugarte accuse Loli Regalado of in Imagining Winter: The Meaning of Shells?

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

10. Why does Celia say her father was murdered?

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