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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Cesar known Bernardito Mendelbaum?
(a) He worked with Cesar and Nestor at the meat packing plant.
(b) He used to be in the Mambo Kings' band.
(c) He is also from Havana.
(d) He used to be Cesar and Nestor's roommate.

3. How do Mariela and her mother live comfortably in Cuba?
(a) Mariela's stepfather makes a six-figure salary.
(b) Mariela is close with Fidel Castro.
(c) Mariela's mother is paid very well for her work.
(d) Mariela's stepfather is an official close to the Castro regime.

4. What leads Cesar to hire Eugenio to help with maintenance at the apartment building?
(a) More work than usual.
(b) A new management company.
(c) New tenants.
(d) Exhaustion.

5. For what does Cesar invite his nephew?
(a) A night out at the clubs.
(b) A mambo lesson.
(c) Dinner and drinks.
(d) A performance.

6. What theme is very clear in this part?
(a) Certainty in celebrity.
(b) Family.
(c) Self-destruction.
(d) Love.

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

8. What does this woman want?
(a) To inherit Cesar's money.
(b) To marry Cesar.
(c) To meet Cesar's nephew.
(d) To move to Los Angeles.

9. How does Fernando help Cesar?
(a) He purchases a local Irish pub and turns it into a mambo club.
(b) He pays his bills for one month.
(c) He convinces Mariela to leave Cuba.
(d) He brings Cesar's brothers to America.

10. Where does Cesar continue to play?
(a) With the symphony.
(b) At bars.
(c) At clubs and restaurants.
(d) In the park.

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

12. What does Carmen do?
(a) Seduces Cesar.
(b) Gives Cesar his guitar.
(c) Makes Cesar and Don dinner.
(d) Murders Don.

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

14. About what does Cesar worry?
(a) Eugenio is lonely.
(b) Eugenio is not successful in his career.
(c) Eugenio will miss him.
(d) Eugenio has inherited his father's melancholy.

15. What is important to Cesar, regarding Eugenio?
(a) He find a good woman to marry.
(b) That Eugenio inherit his wealth.
(c) He not inherit his father's depression.
(d) He know how much Cesar loves him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Celia do this to Cesar?

2. What does Cesar learn about the renovated club?

3. What does Cesar continue to do through the night?

4. Why does Cesar begin playing music again after his brother's death?

5. Why does Cesar's neighbor knock on his door?

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