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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Cesar's neighbor knock on his door?
(a) To ask if Cesar has any alcohol he can buy.
(b) To invite Cesar to a party.
(c) To say hello.
(d) To tell him to turn down his television.

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

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

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

13. Who is confined to a wheelchair?
(a) Cesar Castillo.
(b) Delores Castillo.
(c) Eugenio Castillo.
(d) Don Emilio.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What leads Cesar to hire Eugenio to help with maintenance at the apartment building?

2. What does Cesar notice about his brothers?

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

4. How does Cesar respond to her efforts?

5. What does Cesar do to the forty-year-old woman?

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