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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 is Cesar's intention?
(a) To watch people play on the beach.
(b) To direct a new movie.
(c) To make dinner.
(d) To drink himself to death.

2. What kind of advice does Cesar give Nestor?
(a) Give up on Maria, because she does not want to marry Nestor.
(b) Abuse Maria, so she will know who is in charge.
(c) Keep asking her to marry him.
(d) Bring her gifts and send her flowers.

3. What does Cesar do soon after returning from Cuba?
(a) He becomes a maintanence man.
(b) He buys an icecream stand.
(c) He joins the Merchant Marines.
(d) He returns to the Mambo Kings.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What opportunity does Cesar take while in California?

2. Why does Delores's father leave Cuba and his wife?

3. Who pays for Cesar and Nestor while they are in town?

4. What do Cesar and Nestor escape in 1949?

5. Where is Cesar sitting as the story switches perspective?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Eugenio imagine?

2. How does Cesar feel while in a relationship with Lydia?

3. What happens that causes Cesar to become angry with Lydia?

4. What is taking place with the hearts?

5. How does the novel end?

6. What does the doctor say is happening to Cesar?

7. How does Cesar end up in his neighbor's room?

8. Describe the popularity of the Mambo Kings by 1954.

9. How is Nestor killed?

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

(see the answer keys)

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