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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. How does Nestor act in California?
(a) He beds as many women as possible.
(b) He stays in the hotel room the entire time.
(c) He is more wild than Cesar.
(d) He does not stray from his marriage vows, due to a sense of duty to Delores.

2. By what is Cesar plagued?
(a) Bouts of depression.
(b) Heart trouble.
(c) The desire to gamble.
(d) Melancholy in the loss of his daughter, who lives with her mother in Havana.

3. Why are they in this city?
(a) They have been deported.
(b) To play for a huge British following.
(c) To appear on the "I Love Lucy" show.
(d) To perform in the House of Blues.

4. What can Nestor not get out of his head?
(a) A new song he has written.
(b) Thoughts of Delores.
(c) His desire to go home to Cuba.
(d) Thoughts of Maria.

5. What opportunity does Cesar take while in California?
(a) To record several songs.
(b) Swim in the Pacific.
(c) To bed as many women as he can.
(d) Relax in California's wine country.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the other band members suggest to Cesar?

2. How does Delores feel about the celebrities in her home?

3. What does Nestor do for a girl he once love?

4. Why is Nestor impressed by this girl?

5. Who eventually joins Delores and her father?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Eugenio think about Desi Arnaz's home?

2. How does the novel end?

3. How does Lydia feel about Cesar?

4. How does Cesar handle Nestor's death?

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

6. What do the Castillo brothers have in common with Desi Arnaz?

7. How does Cesar's vacation in Cuba help him heal?

8. Why does Cesar remain in New York City?

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

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

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