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

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

3. What do the nuns tell Lourdes over the phone about her father?
(a) The nuns say her father promised them money.
(b) The nuns say they have not seen her father for several days.
(c) The nuns say they want her to bake a cake for her father.
(d) The nuns say her father's spirit thanked them for his care.

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

5. What sport did El Lider excel at in his youth?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Hockey.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Baseball.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Ivanito living in Imagining Winter: The Meaning of Shells?

2. Whose voice does Lourdes hear in her head?

3. In Ordinary Seductions: Celia's Letters: 1942-1949, which author does Celia read?

4. How does Felicia try to kill Hugo?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Celia say her father was murdered?

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

5. What qualities make Lourdes an irritating force to her family?

6. How does Lourdes respond when soldiers first come to the ranch where she and Rufino live?

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

8. What confuses Celia about her success as a judge in the town cases?

9. How does Lourdes connect with her husband?

10. What happens to Celia after her parents divorce?

(see the answer keys)

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