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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who arrives with a pot of ox tail soup that comforts and nourishes Tita as she recovers?
(a) Mama
(b) John
(c) Chechna
(d) Gertrudis

2. How is Pedro feeling about the presence of John at the dinner table?
(a) Confused
(b) Jealous
(c) Happy
(d) Ambivalent

3. What has been severely depleted by the troops that were staying at the ranch?
(a) Tita
(b) Water
(c) The garden
(d) Pantry

4. What happens to Tita once she yells at the ghost of her mother?
(a) She gets her period
(b) She is more determined to marry John
(c) She gives birth
(d) She feels like cooking again

5. What happens to Mama when the rebels attack her house?
(a) She is arrested
(b) She is raped
(c) She is injured, paralyzed from the waist down
(d) She is killed

6. What does Pedro tell Tita he wants for their life together, which makes her cry?
(a) He wants to move away
(b) He wants to build her a kitchen
(c) He wants to start over
(d) He wants to have a child with her

7. Who besides Tita can see Mama's ghost in the corner of the room?
(a) The dog
(b) Rosaura
(c) Pedro
(d) John

8. Mama Elena finally gives in as they have run out of ___________ to hire.
(a) Nurses
(b) Cooks
(c) Maids
(d) Doctors

9. What happens to Chechna as she goes to talk to Mama?
(a) She is killed
(b) Pedro stops her
(c) She gets lost
(d) She is raped

10. What do Tita and Chechna put into a cool room until the next day's celebration?
(a) Turkey
(b) Wedding cake
(c) Tostadas
(d) Chiles

11. Pedro accuses Tita of having second thoughts about him because he is now a _____________.
(a) Married man
(b) Old man
(c) Sick man
(d) Jealous man

12. Who is traveling with John in order to meet Tita as well?
(a) His father
(b) His Aunt Mary
(c) His mother
(d) His brother Bill

13. When Gertrudis and her family arrive for the wedding, who is driving the car?
(a) Ricardo
(b) Juan
(c) Her son
(d) Gertrudis

14. What does Tita give to her Mama in order to help her heal?
(a) Medicine
(b) Gifts
(c) Nourishing food
(d) Special herbs

15. Rosaura tells Tita she has no right to have _______________.
(a) Peace
(b) Happiness
(c) A family of her own
(d) A boyfriend

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the guests filled with as they eat the food served at this wedding?

2. What does Tita advise Rosaura to chew on before she goes to bed at night?

3. Who would Gertrudis have liked to have be able to witness her rise to her new position?

4. Gertrudis times the conversation so that Pedro will hear Tita ________________.

5. For whom is Tita making the cream fritters mentioned in the title of this chapter?

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