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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Chapters 12 - 17).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What commodity first brought Chinese people to Cuba?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Cotton.
(c) Rum.
(d) Coal.

2. In Chapter 15, why does Luis say that the Cuban authorities might be keeping an eye on Marisol?
(a) She is a beautiful woman and sometimes that alone is enough.
(b) She is a spy.
(c) She is a descendant of one of Cuba's previously most wealthy families.
(d) She is a fashion expert and the regime is interested in fashion.

3. What does Ana tell Marisol about the man Elisa had been involved with in her youth?
(a) He was dangerous and dour.
(b) Emilio Perez would never have accepted a revolutionary as her boyfriend.
(c) Emilio Perez might have come around to having a revolutionary in the family eventually.
(d) He was very intelligent but too idealistic.

4. Who is Elisa's dear friend that Marisol will stay with in Cuba?
(a) Ana Rodriguez.
(b) Isabel Fuente.
(c) Daisy Villanueva.
(d) Rosa Puente.

5. In Chapter 14, what does Elisa realize Pablo was right about when they first met?
(a) Everything is political.
(b) Elisa's mother would never think Pablo was handsome enough for her.
(c) One of them would need to live in exile.
(d) Their parents would never get along.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ana tell Elisa her parents have invited for dinner in the hopes of match-making the two of them in Chapter 8?

2. What does Pablo tell Elisa about his family in Chapter 7?

3. In what year does Marisol travel to Cuba for the first time in her life?

4. Which group does Elisa tell Pablo her brother is part of?

5. In Chapter 17, what does Luis confess to Marisol that he does that is dangerous?

(see the answer key)

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