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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rosaura ask Tita for help with when she enters the kitchen?
(a) Making a bread
(b) Caring for her child
(c) The diet John has put her on
(d) Dealing with Pedro's moods

2. What does Tita drop as soon as she sees Rosaura watching her?
(a) Pedro's hand
(b) The pot
(c) Her handkerchief
(d) Her ring

3. Who takes advantage of Tita in the storage room, even though she surrenders to him?
(a) Ricardo
(b) John
(c) Dominic
(d) Pedro

4. What are the guests filled with as they eat the food served at this wedding?
(a) Guilt
(b) Grief
(c) Passion
(d) Sadness

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

6. Who is Gertrudis now with? This is the same man that swept her off her feet a long time ago.
(a) Ricardo
(b) Juan
(c) Pedro
(d) John

7. John is grateful to ____________ for healing Tita, as he has been unsuccessful.
(a) Gertrudis
(b) Nacha
(c) Tita
(d) Chechna

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

9. 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 feels like cooking again
(d) She gives birth

10. Who tells Tita he/she does not approve of her marrying John?
(a) Mama
(b) Rosaura
(c) Pedro
(d) Gertrudis

11. Tita's __________ become a stream of water.
(a) Stories
(b) Wishes
(c) Tears
(d) Meals

12. Gertrudis times the conversation so that Pedro will hear Tita ________________.
(a) Is in love with John
(b) Is never going to cook again
(c) Is furious at him
(d) Is carrying his child

13. What signals the presence of Mama Elena's ghost in the room with Tita?
(a) An image appears in the window
(b) A strong, cold gust of air
(c) A bowl shatters
(d) A song

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who used to love the tedious job of shelling these ingredients?

3. Who is traveling with John in order to meet Tita as well?

4. Tita is cooking in the kitchen because John is coming over that night to ask her what?

5. Tita wants to break the tradition her Mama started as it will affect Rosaura's ____________ if it continues.

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