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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Mama Elena and Chechna go to town to buy?
(a) Food
(b) Baked goods
(c) Things for the baby
(d) Clothing

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

6. Who does Pedro have a great love for, and has revealed this to someone in secret?
(a) Tita
(b) Mama
(c) Gertrudis
(d) Rosaura

7. Tita wonders who will _______________ if she does not have any daughters of her own.
(a) Make a home for her
(b) Take care of her
(c) Sing to her
(d) Cook

8. What is Tita's reaction to the private conversation between her and Pedro?
(a) She is confused
(b) She is angry
(c) She is even more sad
(d) She is happy

9. What does Tita do that makes her run away from Mama?
(a) Break a window
(b) Scream
(c) Break the mixing bowl
(d) Flirt with Pedro

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

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

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

13. Tita works the almonds and the ______________ for the recipe she is making.
(a) Sesame seeds
(b) Walnuts
(c) Pecans
(d) Peanuts

14. Once you start chopping _____________, it is hard to stop your tears.
(a) Tomatoes
(b) Peppers
(c) Onions
(d) Potatoes

15. Who has to help Rosaura deliver the baby on her own?
(a) Tita
(b) Chechna
(c) Gertrudis
(d) Mama

Short Answer Questions

1. Life is the delight of __________, according to Tita.

2. Before the worst of the physical symptoms began, __________ left the reception.

3. A solider swoops Gertrudis up onto ______________.

4. What is the purpose of the item Tita is looking for when she's wandering around the garden?

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

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