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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 16, what happens between Elisa and Pablo at the house he takes her to?

2. In Chapter 15, what does Luis tell Marisol about his history of bringing women home?

3. In Chapter 13, who does Ana tell Marisol might be able to help her find more information about Elisa's former lover?

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

5. In Chapter 13, what does Ana tell Marisol about the way terrible things happen?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. In Chapter 15, whose address does Ana give to Marisol, and why?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How and when does Marisol begin to become aware of Luis's true feelings about the regime and what he sees as its flaws and abuses? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay analyzing and exploring Marisol's complex feelings when she first arrives in Cuba at the start of the novel, keeping in mind her main reason for traveling there and citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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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