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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does she do to Cesar?
(a) She leaves him.
(b) She pushes him into a chair and restrains him with rope.
(c) She cheats on him.
(d) She punches him.

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

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

11. Who is Fernando Perez?
(a) Cesar's boss.
(b) A notorious gangster in the Latin community in New York City.
(c) The mayor of New York City at the time.
(d) Cesar's best friend.

12. Why is Celia frustrated with Cesar?
(a) He continues to refuse her.
(b) He is unkind.
(c) He will not listen to her.
(d) He is abusive.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Cesar worry?

2. What does Cesar learn about the renovated club?

3. Why does Cesar remain in New York City?

4. Why is the club suffering financial loss?

5. From what is Cesar unable to stop himself?

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