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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one reason why Mariela does not want to leave Cuba?
(a) She trusts Fidel Castro.
(b) She is not involved as an artistic director of a ballet company.
(c) She does not want to leave her mother.
(d) She does not want to be near her father.

2. Why can Cesar not stop what is going on at the club?
(a) He cannot afford a lawyer.
(b) It is too exhausting.
(c) He does not care enough about it.
(d) It is no longer his.

3. About what does Cesar worry?
(a) Eugenio is not successful in his career.
(b) Eugenio is lonely.
(c) Eugenio has inherited his father's melancholy.
(d) Eugenio will miss him.

4. How does Cesar known Bernardito Mendelbaum?
(a) He used to be in the Mambo Kings' band.
(b) He worked with Cesar and Nestor at the meat packing plant.
(c) He is also from Havana.
(d) He used to be Cesar and Nestor's roommate.

5. For what are these musicians searching?
(a) Fame.
(b) New lives.
(c) Money.
(d) Lessons in the mambo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Into what does Perez convert the club?

2. Who is Fernando Perez?

3. What takes its toll on Cesar?

4. From what is Cesar unable to stop himself?

5. What does Cesar do as Eugenio heads home on the subway?

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