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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Cesar do to the forty-year-old woman?
(a) He asks her to sing for him.
(b) He rapes her.
(c) He kicks her out.
(d) He tells her she is too old.

4. What does Cesar notice about his brothers?
(a) The are unhappy.
(b) This miss Cuba.
(c) They want to move to New York City.
(d) They are content to become old men.

5. Where is Cesar's guitar?
(a) In the kitchen at the restaurant.
(b) At his home.
(c) Upstairs in Don's apartment.
(d) In the cellar at the restaurant.

6. What is one reason why Mariela does not want to leave Cuba?
(a) She does not want to leave her mother.
(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 trusts Fidel Castro.

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

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

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

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

11. Why does Cesar begin playing music again after his brother's death?
(a) He needs the money.
(b) He misses playing.
(c) His brothers in Cuba need financial help.
(d) Music is his therapy.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Cesar continue to reminisce?

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

3. What is The Club Havana?

4. How does the woman react?

5. What does Cesar want for Mariela?

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