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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Howard ask Virgil to show Noemí in Chapter 7?
(a) The cemetery.
(b) The greenhouse.
(c) The library.
(d) The conservatory.

2. What grows among the graves in Chapter 4?
(a) Forget-me-nots.
(b) Weeds.
(c) Mushrooms.
(d) Giant oaks.

3. What upsets Catalina in Chapter 8?
(a) The silence.
(b) The noise.
(c) The smell.
(d) The food.

4. According to Florence in Chapter 7, what is dangerous?
(a) The cemetery.
(b) The mine.
(c) The town.
(d) The mountain.

5. What does Noemí’s father offer to do if she will travel to her cousin?
(a) Pay for her graduate studies in engineering.
(b) Pay for her graduate studies in economics.
(c) Pay for her graduate studies in anthropology.
(d) Pay for her graduate studies in literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Noemí in Chapter 9, what kind of romance does Catalina love?

2. According to Noemí in Chapter 4, what are her greatest assets?

3. Of what has Catalina accused her new husband, as revealed in Chapter 1?

4. How old is Francis, as he explains in Chapter 4?

5. For what does Noemí ask Virgil’s permission in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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