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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, July, Ox-Tail Soup.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Tita's posture described as she is standing over the grinding machine?
(a) Ungraceful
(b) Heavy
(c) Erotic
(d) Spastic

2. Mama Elena finally gives in as they have run out of ___________ to hire.
(a) Maids
(b) Cooks
(c) Doctors
(d) Nurses

3. What happens to Mama when the rebels attack her house?
(a) She is injured, paralyzed from the waist down
(b) She is killed
(c) She is raped
(d) She is arrested

4. Gertrudis runs away, _____________, in the field after the fire begins.
(a) With Tita
(b) Maniacally
(c) Naked
(d) Dressed up

5. From miles away, __________ sees the rose scented cloud from Gertrudis.
(a) Tita
(b) Mama
(c) Rosaura
(d) A solider

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tita continue to do until Mama leaves the kitchen?

2. ___________ does not know about the doctor and his feelings for one of the daughters, even though this character would want to.

3. John is grateful to ____________ for healing Tita, as he has been unsuccessful.

4. What does Tita refuse to do as she is in such deep grief?

5. What begins to shake when Tita is trying to mix up all of the cake ingredients?

(see the answer key)

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