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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 does Celia contemplate, once spring arrives at the end of the story?
(a) What she will plant in her garden.
(b) How many grandchildren she will have.
(c) The last time she saw Gustavo.
(d) What her grave stone might read.

2. In Imagining Winter: Daughters of Chango, Jorge begins to lose his time in _____.
(a) Cuba.
(b) Prison.
(c) Limbo.
(d) New York.

3. What upsets Lourdes, when she arrives at Celia's house?
(a) There is no food prepared.
(b) The way Celia looks.
(c) The smell of the house.
(d) How messy the house is.

4. In Imagining Winter: Baskets of Water, how does Ivanito learn English?
(a) From Jorge's textbooks.
(b) From watching TV.
(c) Tutoring from his teacher.
(d) Felicia teaches him.

5. Why does Felicia pour lye on Graciela Moriera's scalp?
(a) Graciela gives her a dirty look.
(b) Felicia is curious what will happen.
(c) Graciela poured lye on her first.
(d) Felicia believes she killed Ernesto.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only person Lourdes feels she can talk to?

2. What is the only thing Pilar wants to do during the week of midterms?

3. What does Celia report about Lourdes in her letter to Gustavo?

4. Why are Felicia's parents afraid of her new friend's father?

5. What does Felicia's family fear about her sudden peacefulness?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Jorge enraged with Celia while he is on a business trip?

2. What does Celia wonder about her relationship with Gustavo?

3. What causes Lourdes to swing her handbag at a man in her bakery?

4. Why are the women in town attracted to Javier?

5. What does Jorge admit about his plan to break Celia by leaving her with his family?

6. Describe Javier's behavior while he is in his mother's care.

7. What does Lourdes prefer to do, rather than listen to Ivanito's dreams?

8. While Pilar is out shopping, what does she realize is the only time in life she felt determined?

9. How does Lourdes lose so much weight in Imagining Winter: A Matrix Light?

10. Why does Jorge force Javier to learn accounting when he is five-years old?

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