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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the youngest daughter supposed to do when her Mama gets older?
(a) Build her a separate house
(b) Move out
(c) Read to her
(d) Take care of her

3. Who is helping Tita make the wedding cake for Pedro and his new wife?
(a) Gertrudis
(b) Nacha
(c) Rosaura
(d) Mama

4. Why can't the other relatives get back to the ranch to help Rosaura?
(a) They didn't know about the birth
(b) The mist is too great
(c) There is a death in the family
(d) They were stopped by federales

5. What color do the roses Pedro brings to Tita turn when she holds them?
(a) Yellow
(b) White
(c) Pink
(d) Red

6. What does Pedro tell Tita in a private moment they share before the wedding?
(a) He is happy
(b) He is not going to marry her sister
(c) He is in love with Rosaura
(d) He will take her away

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Pedro also tells Tita that he just wants to have a chance to be ___________.
(a) A father
(b) A good husband
(c) Happy
(d) Near her

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nacha tell Tita it is okay to do after Mama leaves?

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

3. The pleasure and warmth that finally explode into passion will nourish the ______________.

4. What did the Indian woman become as a result of her success with the sick relative?

5. What is Nacha's role in the ranch where the women live?

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