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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Allende do after Paula has been in the hospital for 100 days?
(a) Pulls life support systems
(b) Moves to Madrid
(c) Goes back to San Francisco
(d) Sends her mother back to Chile

2. In what city do Allende, her mother and brothers live with Tio Ramon while he works at the Chilean embassy?
(a) Santiago
(b) Lima
(c) Rio de Janeiro
(d) La Paz

3. What does Tata believe that Allende is lacking?
(a) Education
(b) Manners
(c) Money
(d) Clothes

4. Allende states that her mother's side of the family was __________________.
(a) Cruel
(b) Lazy
(c) Wealthy
(d) Poor

5. Who did Allende pledge to never use as a fictional character in anything she writes?
(a) Tata
(b) Her mother
(c) Pablo
(d) Meme

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

7. Who is Paula?
(a) Allende's sister
(b) Allende's daughter
(c) Allende's mother
(d) Allende's granddaughter

8. What nationality was Michael?
(a) Spanish
(b) British
(c) Chilean
(d) Lebanese

9. Allende wished that she was _________________.
(a) A boy
(b) A scholar
(c) Shorter
(d) Thinner

10. With whom does Allende and her family live with after their return home?
(a) Gigi and Papa
(b) Meme and Papa
(c) Meme and Tata
(d) Mama and Papa

11. How many years was Ernesto's father in exile in South America?
(a) 10
(b) 5
(c) 30
(d) 25

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

13. How old was Allende when she met her current husband, Willie?
(a) In her 40s
(b) In her 30s
(c) In her 50s
(d) In her 20s

14. Where did Allende paint murals?
(a) At a social club
(b) At a cafe
(c) On her bedroom walls
(d) At her school

15. What does Allende wish for more than anything at this point?
(a) For Pancho to return
(b) For Paula to reawaken
(c) For Willie to return
(d) For Ernesto to get on with his life

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Allende doing when notified about her daughter?

2. What did Allende's mother do to make some extra money?

3. How old was Allende's mother when she had Allende?

4. What had Allende recently completed?

5. Who is Meme?

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