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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tita looking for when she is wandering around the garden at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) Peppers
(b) Tomatoes
(c) Worms
(d) Beans

2. Who comes to gather up Tita at Mama's request?
(a) John
(b) A priest
(c) A soldier
(d) Pedro

3. They will need 180 _________ in order to make the cake for the wedding day.
(a) Apricots
(b) Bags of flour
(c) Cups of sugar
(d) Eggs

4. The doctor tells Tita that he inherited his curiosity from his __________.
(a) Grandmother
(b) Brother
(c) Mother
(d) Father

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was able to stave off the rebels from the house?

2. What is the one thing Tita is upset the people from #79 stole when they came to the ranch?

3. What kind of sauce does Tita make which is simply exquisite?

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

5. What color do the roses Pedro brings to Tita turn when she holds them?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Pedro agree to marry Tita's sister Rosaura, even though he wanted to marry Tita?

2. Why can the old Indian women and Tita speak without saying any words aloud?

3. What does Pedro say when Tita tells him that she is actually not pregnant, as she once believed.

4. Why can't Tita be the daughter to marry Pedro, according to the rules of Mama Elena?

5. What does Tita do in order to trick the child into sleeping in her own room instead of in the kitchen?

6. Why is Tita the only person who can help Rosaura deliver her baby on her own?

7. What does the reader find out about Tita's great aunt, which reveals a similarity between the two women?

8. What does Tita ask Chechna to do for her in order to keep her at John's house?

9. Why are Chechna and Tita supposed to be making as many sausages as possible?

10. What does Rosaura ask Tita to help her with after the birth of her child?

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