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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cesar do to Delores?

2. How does Cesar feel about his celebrity?

3. What question does Maria continually evade?

4. What happens to Nestor because of this?

5. Who are Cesar and Nestor Castillo?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cesar feel about asking Lydia out on a date?

2. Why does Cesar hire Eugenio?

3. How does Cesar first meet Lydia?

4. How does Cesar feel about his daughter in Havana?

5. How is Fernando Perez able to help Cesar?

6. Describe Delores.

7. What does Celia want from Cesar? Is she successful?

8. Describe Cesar's father.

9. How is Nestor killed?

10. About what does Cesar begin to hallucinate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Cesar's ailments affect his relationship with Lydia.

Part 1) Who is Lydia?

Part 2) What are Cesar's ailments?

Part 3) How do his ailments affect their relationship?

Essay Topic 2

Cesar joins the Merchant Marines.

Part 1) Why does he join the Merchant Marines?

Part 2) What does he do with the Merchant Marines?

Part 3) How does this experience affect Cesar?

Essay Topic 3

Nestor is killed at the age of thirty.

Part 1) How is he killed?

Part 2) Is it an accident or a suicide? Use information from the text to support your answer.

Part 3) How does his death affect those that are close to him?

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