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

2. Where do Cesar and Nestor find themselves few months later?
(a) Havana.
(b) Chicago.
(c) London.
(d) Los Angeles.

3. Where are the Mambo Kings hugely popular?
(a) Los Angeles clubs.
(b) New York City clubs.
(c) Miami clubs.
(d) Chicago clubs.

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

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 does Cesar marry?

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

4. What does Delores's father do every night?

5. What is realized over drinks?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Delores.

2. What happens between Eugenio and his father?

3. How does Cesar handle Nestor's death?

4. How does Lydia feel about Cesar?

5. Who is Maria?

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

7. How do Cesar and his daughter spend their short time together?

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

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

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

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