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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Pages 71 - 109.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disease was Paula diagnosed with?
(a) Diabetes
(b) Porphyria
(c) Epilepsy
(d) Cancer

2. What does Allende feel bad about her inability to do?
(a) Finish her new book
(b) Stay at the hospital
(c) Put Paula in God's hands
(d) Cry

3. Where did Allende learn to speak English?
(a) From her mother
(b) Listening to the radio
(c) A school for British girls
(d) From Tio Ramon

4. Where does Allende's mother work to support her children?
(a) An insurance office
(b) A restaurant
(c) A bank
(d) A hair salon

5. What was the basis for Allende's writing as a child?
(a) Loneliness
(b) Gift for gab
(c) Outgoing personality
(d) Vivid imagination

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following people does not come to the hospital from South America?

2. Who did Allende pledge to never use as a fictional character in anything she writes?

3. What is Ernesto's profession?

4. What was the initial report about Allende's daughter?

5. What did Tio give Allende on her ninth birthday?

(see the answer key)

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