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

2. In Chapter 17, what does Luis confess to Marisol that he does that is dangerous?
(a) Sends money to relatives out of the country.
(b) Writes a blog critical of the regime under a pseudonym.
(c) Helps smuggle people on rafts to America.
(d) Protests with a face mask on.

3. In Chapter 24, what happens to Marisol in Vedado?
(a) She gets lost.
(b) She is grabbed by men and thrown into a car.
(c) She is shot.
(d) She is stabbed.

4. In Chapter 26, what does Pablo tell Marisol about his interactions with Elisa's father?
(a) Pablo arranged for Elisa's father to get and keep his own money.
(b) Pablo arranged for Elisa's father's safe passage to Miami.
(c) Pablo had tried to have Elisa's father arrested again after his release.
(d) Pablo arranged for Elisa's father's release from jail.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 24, who does Marisol think the men who grab Luis look like?

3. In Chapter 16, where does Pablo tell Elisa that Che is marching towards?

4. In Chapter 23, what does Elisa do when she hears the news about the conditions in the prison?

5. In Chapter 24, what do Luis and Marisol drink at the Malecon?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 12, who does Elisa ask to help Pablo and why?

2. In Chapter 24, what happens to Luis and Marisol as they walk together in Vedado?

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

4. In Chapter 12, what does Elisa realize she must do when she goes to talk with her father about Pablo?

5. In Chapter 13, what does Luis tell Marisol about his personal life that shocks her?

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

7. In Chapter 13, what does Ana tell Marisol about the beginning of Castro's regime?

8. In Chapter 14, what does Pablo tell Elisa about his feelings about her father securing his release from jail that surprises Elisa?

9. In Chapter 20, what development in Havana does Elisa's mother seem truly appalled to have heard about?

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

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