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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the second main physical response the guests have after eating the wedding cake?
(a) Intense anger
(b) Vomiting
(c) Laughing
(d) Heart attacks

3. Tita and the old woman both love the ____________ which allows them to speak without saying a word.
(a) Setting
(b) Summer
(c) Kitchen
(d) Pain

4. Who comes to visit the women in the kitchen, asking for one of the daughter's hands in marriage?
(a) Pedro
(b) Ricardo
(c) John
(d) Tomas

5. What has Tita completely lost interest in since Pedro has left?
(a) Cooking
(b) Singing
(c) Dancing
(d) Roberto

6. Life is the delight of __________, according to Tita.
(a) Food
(b) Happiness
(c) Love
(d) Family

7. Who does Mama say that the man can marry, as opposed to the one he wanted to marry?
(a) No one
(b) Rosaura
(c) Gertrudis
(d) Tita

8. What does Tita continue to do until Mama leaves the kitchen?
(a) Yell
(b) Beats the cake
(c) Sigh
(d) Sing a song

9. Who frantically announces that Rosaura has gone into labor?
(a) Pedro
(b) Mama
(c) Tita
(d) Gertrudis

10. John's grandmother ended up helping his great great ________________.
(a) Grandfather
(b) Grandmother
(c) Uncle
(d) Aunt

11. What does Tita use to help fatten up the main ingredient for her recipe?
(a) Almonds
(b) Pecans
(c) Sunflower seeds
(d) Walnuts

12. Tita is supposed to be helping Chechna make __________.
(a) Pasta
(b) Bread
(c) Mulled wine
(d) Sausages

13. The pleasure and warmth that finally explode into passion will nourish the ______________.
(a) Art
(b) Soul
(c) Marriage
(d) Child

14. What did the Indian woman become as a result of her success with the sick relative?
(a) A teacher at a college
(b) Family doctor
(c) An equal
(d) A medicine woman to the city

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Tita refuses to throw away the ___________, and decides to use them in a recipe.

2. When Tita's sausage creatures were offered in the making of _____________, she was not upset.

3. What will not thicken as a result of Tita's many tears?

4. What does Pedro tell Tita in a private moment they share before the wedding?

5. Who does Pedro bring with him when he goes to visit the women in the kitchen?

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