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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pedro do in order to help Rosaura with her labor?
(a) Gets new bedsheets
(b) Prays
(c) Boils water
(d) Goes to town to get a doctor

2. What do the guests at the wedding begin to do after they eat the wedding cake?
(a) Wail and cry
(b) Dance wildly
(c) Laugh
(d) Faint

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

4. To prepare the little cardboard strips to become matches, they should be coated with potassium nitrate and ____________.
(a) Magnesium
(b) Salt
(c) Gunpowder
(d) Water

5. The youngest daughter cannot ____________, according to Mama Elena.
(a) Have babies
(b) Cook
(c) Marry
(d) Learn to read

6. A solider swoops Gertrudis up onto ______________.
(a) A tree
(b) His back
(c) His horse
(d) A table

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

8. How much older is Rosaura than Tita?
(a) 4 years
(b) 5 years
(c) 2 years
(d) 1 year

9. What is Nacha's role in the ranch where the women live?
(a) Maid
(b) Wetnurse
(c) Gardener
(d) Cook

10. The _________ plans to visit the house every day in order to see the baby.
(a) Doctor
(b) Soldier
(c) Mayor
(d) Rebel

11. Pedro and Tita see the events of Gertrudis from __________ a distance away.
(a) The field
(b) The bedroom
(c) The ranch
(d) A tree

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

13. What is Tita looking for when she is wandering around the garden at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) Worms
(b) Peppers
(c) Beans
(d) Tomatoes

14. John realizes that Tita's ___________ are wet and that he needs to dry them slowly.
(a) Tears
(b) Matches
(c) Truths
(d) Batter mixes

15. Tita is no longer the __________ that the doctor remembers.
(a) Cook
(b) Ugly woman
(c) Little girl
(d) Weak peasant

Short Answer Questions

1. John's grandmother ended up helping his great great ________________.

2. What is the one thing Tita is upset the people from #79 stole when they came to the ranch?

3. Tita feels a strong love for the ______________, something which completely surprises her.

4. Who would have stolen the items in #78 if they had not killed them?

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

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