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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pablo say makes a man happy?
(a) Money and power.
(b) Love and family.
(c) Fame and fortune.
(d) Friends and fans.

2. What does Cesar do to Delores?
(a) He makes a pass at her.
(b) He abuses her.
(c) He finds her a job with the band.
(d) He leaves her.

3. What does Nestor do as he travels around the country?
(a) Diligently sends letters and gifts to his family.
(b) He forgets about Delores and his children.
(c) He falls in love with another woman.
(d) He writes to Maria.

4. What do Cesar and Nestor escape in 1949?
(a) A civil war.
(b) An abusive father.
(c) Imprisonment.
(d) The rise of the new dictatorship.

5. Why are they in this city?
(a) To appear on the "I Love Lucy" show.
(b) To perform in the House of Blues.
(c) To play for a huge British following.
(d) They have been deported.

6. Who does Cesar marry?
(a) Maria.
(b) Luisa.
(c) Marta.
(d) Leslie.

7. Why does Cesar keep the Mambo Kings together?
(a) In memory of his brother.
(b) Out of habit.
(c) He needs the money.
(d) Out of love for the music.

8. What can Nestor not get out of his head?
(a) Thoughts of Maria.
(b) A new song he has written.
(c) His desire to go home to Cuba.
(d) Thoughts of Delores.

9. Why does he stray from her?
(a) He no longer loves her.
(b) His Latin masculinity, claiming infidelity is the right of the Cuban man.
(c) She has betrayed him, and he wants to get revenge.
(d) He loves another woman, named Maria.

10. Of what is there no hope for Nestor and Maria?
(a) Leaving Cuba.
(b) Reconciliation.
(c) Distance to keep them from wanting to be together.
(d) Their love to end.

11. What does Nestor do for a girl he once love?
(a) He calls her on the telephone.
(b) He writes a song.
(c) He sends her a letter.
(d) He looks for her everywhere.

12. Where is Cesar sitting as the story switches perspective?
(a) In the Hotel Splendour.
(b) In his kitchen.
(c) In a director's chair.
(d) On the beach.

13. By what is Cesar plagued?
(a) Bouts of depression.
(b) Heart trouble.
(c) Melancholy in the loss of his daughter, who lives with her mother in Havana.
(d) The desire to gamble.

14. How is Cesar known, first in Julian's band?
(a) The Mambo King.
(b) A Cuban warlord.
(c) A cooking sensation.
(d) The Salsa Tsar.

15. What does Nestor do to help Maria?
(a) He buys her a meal.
(b) He becomes her tutor.
(c) He teaches her how to dance.
(d) He intervenes during the fight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nestor marry Delores?

2. What does Nestor hope a family life will do?

3. What do the other band members suggest to Cesar?

4. What do the Castillos do?

5. With whom is Nestor standing in all their youthful prowess?

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