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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it now difficult to make a living in Cuba?
(a) Most Cubans have left Cuba.
(b) A hurricane wiped out many cities.
(c) There is a drought.
(d) Fidel Castro in the new leader.

2. For what are these musicians searching?
(a) Fame.
(b) Lessons in the mambo.
(c) Money.
(d) New lives.

3. Why can Cesar not stop what is going on at the club?
(a) He does not care enough about it.
(b) He cannot afford a lawyer.
(c) It is too exhausting.
(d) It is no longer his.

4. What does Cesar continue to do through the night?
(a) Watch television.
(b) Talk to his dead brother.
(c) Drink.
(d) Sleep.

5. Where does Cesar play most frequently?
(a) The Tree Restaurant.
(b) The Risoteria Restaurant.
(c) The Mamey Tree Restaurant.
(d) Joe's Pizzeria.

6. Why does Perez convert the club?
(a) He want to venture into something new.
(b) He wants to offend Cesar.
(c) He wants to recoup his financial losses.
(d) He does not like mambo music.

7. What is Cesar's excuse for his actions?
(a) He is interested in pretty women.
(b) He has heard she has a beautiful voice.
(c) It is way past time for her to have enjoyed sex.
(d) He only likes young women.

8. What is one reason why Mariela does not want to leave Cuba?
(a) She does not want to leave her mother.
(b) She does not want to be near her father.
(c) She is not involved as an artistic director of a ballet company.
(d) She trusts Fidel Castro.

9. About what does Cesar continue to reminisce?
(a) People and events in his life.
(b) Maria.
(c) His daughter.
(d) His life in Cuba.

10. Who is Cesar's hardest goodbye?
(a) Delores.
(b) Fernando.
(c) Eugenio.
(d) Leticia.

11. What does Cesar do as Eugenio heads home on the subway?
(a) He calls Delores.
(b) He cries.
(c) He watches him disappear from his life.
(d) He drinks.

12. What does Cesar give Bernardito?
(a) A goodbye card.
(b) A job.
(c) Old Mambo King records.
(d) Money.

13. Who enter Cesar's life thrilled to be with the famous Cesar Castillo?
(a) The club owners.
(b) Young musicians.
(c) Women.
(d) New friends.

14. In 1967, from where do Cesar's three remaining brothers escape?
(a) Cuba.
(b) China.
(c) Prison.
(d) Russia.

15. What takes its toll on Cesar?
(a) Not eating.
(b) Not sleeping.
(c) Being alone.
(d) Maintaining his regular job and running The Club Havana.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cesar do in his basement workshop?

2. From what is Cesar unable to stop himself?

3. How does this change affect Cesar?

4. What is The Club Havana?

5. What continues in Cesar's life?

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