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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, May, Northern-Style Chorizo.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tita discover about Nacha when she goes to her room?
(a) She is waiting for her
(b) She is with a man
(c) She is dead
(d) She has packed up her things

2. Tita's great aunt reportedly also cried a lot, even when she was in the ____________.
(a) Garden
(b) Market
(c) Womb
(d) Church

3. Why is Tita no longer interested in being in the kitchen?
(a) She is sick
(b) Pedro and his family have left
(c) She can not think of anything to cook
(d) She wants to upset Mama

4. Gertrudis begins to imagine one of Pancho Villa's ___________ she had seen in the town square the week before.
(a) Maps
(b) Wagons
(c) Horses
(d) Soldiers

5. Tita refuses to throw away the ___________, and decides to use them in a recipe.
(a) Quail feathers
(b) Roses
(c) Letters
(d) Bad olives

Short Answer Questions

1. Once you start chopping _____________, it is hard to stop your tears.

2. Tita's great aunt was born in ____________ and lived most of her life cooking.

3. What does Tita do for the child when the mother is unable to do so?

4. What does Gertrudis decide to do in response to her physical reaction?

5. They will need 180 _________ in order to make the cake for the wedding day.

(see the answer key)

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