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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Celia do when she leaves the asylum?

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

4. What causes Felicia's health to deteriorate?

5. Who does Celia see emerge from the light and come toward her?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Rufino bond with his daughter Pilar?

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

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

7. How does Lourdes connect with her husband?

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

9. How does Celia describe the environment that Lourdes was born in?

10. What does Jorge reveal about Pilar when Lourdes is on her walk home from the bakery?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What joyful experiences has Ivanito known in his life? What are some signs that show that Ivanito is disappointed? How does Ivanito escape from his problems?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Celia choose a life of questioning and wondering? How does this way of life help her? How does it hurt her?

Essay Topic 3

What significance does Ivanito leaving Cuba at the end of the novel have? Why doesn't Celia have a say in this decision? Why does Pilar choose not to share the decision with Celia when she has a chance?

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