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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nestor hope a family life will do?
(a) Bring him more honor.
(b) Help him settle down.
(c) Erase any traces of Maria from his mind.
(d) Make him feel more at home in New York City.

2. Why does Lydia do this?
(a) She loves Cesar.
(b) She wants to help Cesar's health improve.
(c) She needs money.
(d) She can no longer bear the diminished man Cesar has become.

3. What does Cesar teach?
(a) Trumpet.
(b) The mambo.
(c) The salsa.
(d) Piano.

4. To what does Lydia agree?
(a) To stay at the festival.
(b) To never dance with another man.
(c) To move in with Cesar.
(d) To marry Cesar.

5. How does Nestor act in California?
(a) He stays in the hotel room the entire time.
(b) He is more wild than Cesar.
(c) He beds as many women as possible.
(d) He does not stray from his marriage vows, due to a sense of duty to Delores.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Cesar's intention?

2. How does Delores feel about the celebrities in her home?

3. Where does the story begin?

4. How does the novel end?

5. What does Cesar not want to pass by?

(see the answer key)

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