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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are called the "supreme Reconcilers" in chapter two?
(a) Guardian Angels.
(b) Beings who have been reincarnated enough times to learn all of life's lessons.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Artists.

2. What does the coyote at the end of chapter four try to sell Azucena?
(a) A body.
(b) Illegal music.
(c) Plant speakers.
(d) A silver spoon.

3. What is the song at the beginning of chapter five about?
(a) Ways in which a beautiful person is bad.
(b) Seeing a person known long ago and remembering old times.
(c) A spiritual awakening.
(d) A lost love remembered.

4. What does Azucena's Guardian Angel think of her feeling isolated?
(a) She should realize she is not isolated.
(b) She should not listen to her feelings, but should take action.
(c) As she wallows in her negative feelings, she is ignoring the fun she could be having with the guests staying at her house.
(d) She is in great danger of losing herself in her emotions.

5. Why does Isabel disintegrate her daughter?
(a) Isabel believes that there may be a cure for her daughter's illness in the future.
(b) Isabel is jealous of her daughter's beauty.
(c) Isabel believes that her daughter would have been subversive because of her astrological chart.
(d) Isabel wants to organize her life in order to be able to better care for her daughter in the future.

6. Who is Agapito?
(a) A high ranking angel.
(b) Isabel's employee.
(c) Isabel's boss.
(d) Carmela's boyfriend.

7. Who is Cuquita?
(a) Rodrigo's boss.
(b) Rodrigo's mother.
(c) Azucena's apartment supervisor.
(d) Azucena's Guardian Angel.

8. Why is Cuquita's grandmother blind?
(a) She was injured in the 1985 earthquake.
(b) She inherited a degenerative disease that left her with limited vision before going totally blind.
(c) She was born blind.
(d) It is karmic. She blinded others in a past life.

9. After making love, what brings Rodrigo and Azucena "back to earth"?
(a) They find a leg in their bed.
(b) The roof leaks and they are soaked with rain water.
(c) The house catches on fire, and they are forced to run out even though they are not dressed.
(d) They are so hungry that they call for a pizza delivery.

10. What happens to Isabel's child?
(a) Isabel decides to take the child from the city she hates with her to Spain.
(b) He is born already dead.
(c) He is born with a severe medical problem, and is rushed from the house to see a doctor.
(d) Citlali murders the infant just after his birth.

11. 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) Azucena's deep desire to have been at the place where the news cast was being filmed.
(c) The fact that Azucena knows Abel Zabludowsky.
(d) Televirtuality, which transports the viewer to the site of the news.

12. Who are Wreckoncilers?
(a) People who wreck old constructions in order to build.
(b) People who wreck parties.
(c) People who work for the government.
(d) People who cause imbalance in the cosmic order.

13. What makes Azucena cry as she shops?
(a) Music.
(b) A poor woman, asking those passing by for a little money.
(c) A photograph of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake.
(d) A scent from her childhood.

14. What kind of family is Citlali from?
(a) A noble Aztec family.
(b) A family of beggars.
(c) A family of time travelers.
(d) A family of warriors.

15. What is Azucena waiting for in chapter eight?
(a) A pizza delivery.
(b) News from her doctor.
(c) The police to arrive.
(d) Rodrigo to return.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Carmela?

2. What does Isabel want from Downtown Mexico City?

3. Where is chapter one set?

4. How does Agapito win Isabel's favor?

5. What kind of quotes are found at the beginning and end of the first chapter?

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