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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. How does Celia respond when her lover leaves Cuba?

2. In Chapter 2, what family member does Lourdes unsuccessfully call?

3. Why does Lourdes fire her new employee?

4. Who predicts that Celia will survive hard times and live by the water?

5. What does Celia guard at the start of Ordinary Seductions: Ocean Blue?

Short Essay Questions

1. What commitment does Celia make after Jorge dies?

2. Why must a goat be sacrificed to help Felicia?

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

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

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

6. How does Lourdes connect with her husband?

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

8. What is significant about Celia's son being born with a caul?

9. What are Pilar's supernatural gifts?

10. What does Felicia realize about her mother's attraction to El Lider?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Lourdes use control with her family? How does she use control in her business? How does Lourdes give up control in the novel? How do Lourdes's conversations with Jorge help her with her need to control others?

Essay Topic 2

How do the characters in Dreaming in Cuban thrive in the face of conflict? Choose one character and describe how he or she uses conflict to improve his or her life.

Essay Topic 3

How do Celia's political views shape her parenting? How have Celia's children responded to her devotion to El Lider? How might her views influence her to stay in Cuba, rather than live in the U.S., where she could be closer to Pilar?

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