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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Cesar hospitalized?
(a) His organs are failing.
(b) He cannot stop being violently ill.
(c) He has a heart attack.
(d) He has passed out.

2. What continues in Cesar's life?
(a) The string of women.
(b) His relationship with Celia.
(c) His love for Delores.
(d) His communication with Eugenio.

3. Why is the club suffering financial loss?
(a) No one is interested in mambo music.
(b) It suffered a fire.
(c) Cesar has been too generous.
(d) It did not pass the safety inspection.

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

5. What does The Club Havana do for Cesar?
(a) It energizes his lagging spirits.
(b) It gives him an income.
(c) It gives him a place to play.
(d) It causes stress in his life.

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

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

8. What does Cesar do in his basement workshop?
(a) He teaches Eugenio how to work with wood.
(b) He watches television.
(c) Mourns the changes which are now running rampant in Cuba.
(d) He is building an altar for the neighborhood church.

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

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

11. What does Cesar provide for these men?
(a) Jobs in the neighborhood.
(b) Food and a place to stay.
(c) Room and board.
(d) housing, money and temporary jobs at the club.

12. What about the woman next door catches Cesar's attention?
(a) She has a strange accent.
(b) She is unusual.
(c) She is very tall.
(d) He is struck by her beauty.

13. What does Cesar begin to do?
(a) Consider moving.
(b) Stop drinking.
(c) Say goodbye to the people he has loved.
(d) Save money to buy back the club.

14. How does Cesar respond to her efforts?
(a) He laughs at them.
(b) He resists them.
(c) He begins to give in.
(d) He gives in.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Celia and Cesar's relationship?

2. What does Cesar do as Eugenio heads home on the subway?

3. Who is confined to a wheelchair?

4. Why is it now difficult to make a living in Cuba?

5. How does Fernando help Cesar?

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