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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. In Chapter 13, what happened to Ana's family's rum business under Castro?

2. In Chapter 15, why does Marisol feel as if she has lost her grandmother all over again?

3. In Chapter 20, what year does Magda tell Elisa the current environment reminds her of?

4. What was one reason Luis tells Marisol that he and Cristina broke up?

5. In Chapter 12, what promise does Elisa's father ask her to make to him?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 12, how does Elisa feel about Magda?

2. In Chapter 23, what happens to Elisa's family that has everyone very upset?

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

4. In Chapter 15, how and where does Marisol's relationship with Luis progress into romantic territory?

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

6. 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?

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

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

9. In Chapter 22, what does Luis tell Elisa about how she should feel about her biological grandfather being Pablo?

10. In Chapter 18, what was significant about the Battle of Santa Clara?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 5, why does Ana Rodriguez tell Marisol not to judge her grandmother too harshly when she gives Marisol her grandmother's box of possessions that were buried in Elisa's backyard? What does Marisol find in the box, and how does she react to it? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How does Cleeton use Marisol's search for Pablo - her biological grandfather - and the search's conclusion as a means of sustaining suspense throughout the novel? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Marisol worries about how Luis will settle into life in America, a country he has never visited and that he harbors a certain wariness towards based at least in part on its decades of embargoes and sanctions against Cuba. Write an essay explaining some of the tensions and misgivings Luis feels about America. Do you think he will be able to adjust successfully to life there as an exile himself?

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