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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes the experience of the news broadcast more real to Azucena?
(a) The fact that Rodrigo knows the victim of the crime, and she saw how it affects him.
(b) The fact that Azucena knows Abel Zabludowsky.
(c) Televirtuality, which transports the viewer to the site of the news.
(d) Azucena's deep desire to have been at the place where the news cast was being filmed.

2. How is Azucena raised?
(a) As a servant child.
(b) On a ranch.
(c) By abusive parents.
(d) As an orphan.

3. What does Azucena practice on her way to the planet Korma?
(a) Performing a traditional dance.
(b) Introducing herself.
(c) Her public speaking skills.
(d) Kissing.

4. What does Isabel suspect?
(a) Her daughter's political intentions.
(b) The termite report on her new home.
(c) Mammon's work proposal.
(d) People plotting against her.

5. Why don't the scientists observing Azucena's memory of the Mexico City of 1985 trust her recollection?
(a) It was too organized and clear.
(b) The location of the Monument of the Angel of Independence was not where it should have been.
(c) She did not seem moved for someone who had experienced such tragedy.
(d) She failed to explain how she had such an intimate knowledge of the way that the moment that the earthquake struck two areas so far apart that she could not have been in both.

Short Answer Questions

1. What device does Azucena want from Dr. Díez?

2. What does Azucena remember while listening to her music as she travels through space in chapter nine?

3. What does the narrator of chapter twelve claim is the purpose of wars and social conflicts?

4. How does Isabel keep Ex-Rodrigo quiet during the flight back to Earth?

5. What do we learn in chapter eleven about Ex-Azucena's body?

(see the answer key)

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