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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 do Celia's feelings change for Jorge in Ordinary Seductions: Celia's Letters: 1935-1940?
(a) She wants to start over with him.
(b) She feels sorry for him.
(c) She falls in love with him.
(d) She starts to appreciate his sense of humor.

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

3. What challenge impacts Celia's night with the twins?
(a) Loss of power.
(b) She has no money.
(c) She is worried about Felicia.
(d) The twins are sick.

4. Who does Celia see emerge from the light and come toward her?
(a) A dolphin.
(b) A wolf.
(c) Her husband.
(d) A bat.

5. How does Felicia try to kill Hugo?
(a) With fire.
(b) With poison.
(c) With a knife.
(d) With a gun.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Celia believe murdered a woman she befriended?

2. What does Celia tell her daughter not to bring in the house?

3. What smell is in the air when Celia runs to the beach?

4. Who does Celia write letters to, from 1935-1940?

5. What foods does Felicia insist will purify, in Ordinary Seductions: The Fire Between Them?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Celia say her father was murdered?

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

3. When Celia's great aunt takes her to the santera, what prediction is made for Celia's life?

4. What commitment does Celia make after Jorge dies?

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

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

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

8. Why does Celia worry about Ivanito's looks?

9. How does Lourdes connect with her husband?

10. How does Rufino bond with his daughter Pilar?

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