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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Cesar and Nestor escape in 1949?
(a) An abusive father.
(b) A civil war.
(c) The rise of the new dictatorship.
(d) Imprisonment.

2. How does Delores feel about the celebrities in her home?
(a) Pleased and surprised.
(b) Shy and quiet.
(c) Nervous and agitated.
(d) Annoyed and displeased.

3. Of what is there no hope for Nestor and Maria?
(a) Their love to end.
(b) Leaving Cuba.
(c) Reconciliation.
(d) Distance to keep them from wanting to be together.

4. What does Delores usually do in the evenings?
(a) Read books.
(b) Work.
(c) Go to night school.
(d) Go out dancing.

5. What do the Castillos do?
(a) Work in a factory.
(b) Audition for Broadway.
(c) Buy a pizzeria.
(d) Perform a song that made them popular.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is their performance?

2. Who eventually joins Delores and her father?

3. What job do Cesar and Nestor have during the day?

4. With whom is Nestor standing in all their youthful prowess?

5. Why does Cesar keep the Mambo Kings together?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Castillo brother handle the fame and fortune acquired from being on the "I Love Lucy" show?

2. What is it that Cesar likes about Lydia?

3. Who is Maria?

4. Why does Cesar not ask for help with his depression?

5. Why does Mariela not want to leave Cuba?

6. What does Eugenio imagine?

7. Why does Cesar marry Luisa?

8. What does Cesar do in his travels with the Merchant Marines?

9. What does Perez do with Cesar's mambo club?

10. Why does Cesar begin to play again after Nestor's death?

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