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

2. What does Celia report in her final letter happens to Jorge?
(a) He has just received a job promotion.
(b) He has started hearing voices.
(c) He is in a terrible accident.
(d) He is leaving her.

3. What does Celia guard at the start of Ordinary Seductions: Ocean Blue?
(a) A garden.
(b) The bakery.
(c) The North coast of Cuba.
(d) A church.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of work did Jorge do before the revolution?

2. What composer did Celia play while Jorge traveled?

3. Who does Celia remember, as a result of her son's birth?

4. What does Felicia put in the cake icing?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Celia say her father was murdered?

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

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

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

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

6. What are Pilar's supernatural gifts?

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

8. How does Rufino bond with his daughter Pilar?

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

10. For what reason is Felicia is persuaded to participate in the Revolution?

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