Dreaming in Cuban Test | Final Test - Hard

Cristina Garcia
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Dreaming in Cuban Test | Final Test - Hard

Cristina Garcia
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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 Felicia request in a note about her burial?

2. What is the topic of the book Pilar gives Lourdes in Imagining Winter: Enough Attitude?

3. What does Lourdes recall telling tourists, so they would buy her food?

4. In Imagining Winter: Enough Attitude, Lourdes reflects on rejecting the _____ lifestyle.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lourdes respond when she eats the sugar cane in Cuba?

2. What does Jorge say that causes Lourdes to fall to the ground and bleed?

3. What does Celia say Jorge is jealous about?

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

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

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

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

8. Why does Jorge say he left Cuba?

9. How does Lourdes respond to Pilar, when she wants to talk about her grandmother?

10. How does Celia respond to the religious attendees trying to soothe Felicia as she nears death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What are the causes of Felicia's madness? How do her problems shape her marriages, friendships, and relationship with her mother and children? How does Felicia deal with her mental deterioration?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Celia turn to santeria in order to save her son, Javier? Why does she denounce santeria when Felicia dies? Is Celia consistent with her religious beliefs? Explain.

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