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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. What causes Felicia's health to deteriorate?
(a) Food poisoning.
(b) Her inability to deal with the loss of her father.
(c) She has syphilis.
(d) The break up of her marriage.

2. What does Pilar talk about on the bus?
(a) Her career goals.
(b) Her favorite recipes.
(c) Her family life.
(d) Her travel plans.

3. What does Lourdes tell her visitors to do in Ordinary Seductions: A Grove of Lemons?
(a) She tells them to look at garden.
(b) She tells them to take off their hats.
(c) She tells them to come inside for coffee.
(d) She tells them to leave.

4. Who does Celia say in her letters treats her poorly?
(a) Her friends.
(b) Her in-laws.
(c) Jorge.
(d) Her children.

5. What did a santera once see on Celia's palm?
(a) More children.
(b) A wet landscape.
(c) A rainbow.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rufino explain the voices Lourdes hears?

2. Who is Pilar able to communicate telepathically with?

3. Why is Hugo forced to marry Felicia?

4. Where is Gustavo Sierra de Armas from?

5. Who is the civil trial between in Imagining Winter: The Meaning of Shells?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Felicia attempt to kill her husband, Hugo?

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

3. What does Celia tell Gustavo she does when she hears Jorge has been in a terrible accident?

4. Why does Celia say her father was murdered?

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

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

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

8. What are Pilar's supernatural gifts?

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

10. How does Rufino bond with his daughter Pilar?

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