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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. In Chapter 12, what does Elisa ask her father to do for Pablo?
(a) Get him a job.
(b) Get him out of prison.
(c) Smuggle him out of the country.
(d) Get him the medicine he needs.

2. In Chapter 22, what does the word ojala mean?
(a) The feeling one has just before one's greatest wish is denied.
(b) Adventure.
(c) Spirit.
(d) Something just beyond hope that is entirely out of one's hands.

3. In Chapter 12, what does Alejandro find Elisa to tell her?
(a) He needs money desperately.
(b) She needs to leave Cuba immediately.
(c) Their mother needs to leave Cuba immediately.
(d) Pablo has been jailed and will likely be killed.

4. In Chapter 13, what book does Marisol quote?
(a) Madame Bovary.
(b) Fahrenheit 451.
(c) 1984.
(d) Animal Farm.

5. In Chapter 18, where is Elisa when she hears that Batista is planning to leave the country?
(a) At Guillermo's house.
(b) At a fancy New Year's Eve party in Havana.
(c) In Miami.
(d) In prison.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 14, what does Elisa realize Pablo was right about when they first met?

2. In Chapter 24, what happens to Marisol in Vedado?

3. In Chapter 23, where do Beatriz and Elisa go to find out about their father?

4. In Chapter 15, where do Marisol and Luis kiss for the first time?

5. What does Marisol ask Pablo if he would like to have back?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 22, what does Ana tell Marisol about her feelings on her romance with Luis?

2. In Chapter 14, where does Elisa go in order to see Pablo once he is released from jail?

3. In Chapter 12, what does Alejandro seek Elisa out to tell her about Pablo?

4. In Chapter 20, who comes to Elisa's house to share news and what news does the person share?

5. In Chapter 13, what does Luis tell Marisol about his family's restaurant in Havana?

6. In Chapter 22, what conclusion does Marisol come to about her grandmother's and grandfather's relationship and the truth of Marisol's father being Pablo?

7. In Chapter 19, what does Luis tell Marisol when she tells him she wants to belong in Cuba but she feels like she is a guest in her own country?

8. In Chapter 19, what does Magda tell Marisol about Elisa's secret concerning Pablo that shocks Marisol?

9. In Chapter 18, how do Elisa and her family find out that Batista has made plans to leave the country?

10. In Chapter 15, what does Marisol think about Luis as a professor?

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