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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 does Nestor hope a family life will do?
(a) Bring him more honor.
(b) Help him settle down.
(c) Make him feel more at home in New York City.
(d) Erase any traces of Maria from his mind.

2. To where does Maria move?
(a) A little house with the man who had been beating her up on the night Nestor came to her rescue.
(b) The other side of Cuba to escape Nestor.
(c) Back to her family's home, away from Nestor.
(d) America.

3. Why does Nestor marry Delores?
(a) Out of love.
(b) Out of duty.
(c) He loves her more than he loved Maria.
(d) She is his best friend.

4. How is their performance?
(a) Awful.
(b) Wonderful.
(c) Boring.
(d) Mediocre.

5. Who does Cesar marry?
(a) Maria.
(b) Leslie.
(c) Marta.
(d) Luisa.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nestor act in California?

2. What is Cesar's intention?

3. Who greets the Mambo Kings at the Mambo Nine Club?

4. What does Nestor do as he travels around the country?

5. How does Cesar try to help his brother?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What evidence shows that Cesar feels insecure about Lydia's feelings for him?

3. What transpires between Cesar and Don Emilio's wife, Carmen?

4. Who is Maria?

5. How does Cesar help young Cuban musicians?

6. About what does Cesar dream?

7. How does Cesar's relationship with Celia end?

8. Why does Cesar want to drink himself to death?

9. How is Cesar found at the Hotel Splendour?

10. Why does Cesar visit Bernardito Mandelbaum? What does he give him?

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