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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About whom does Allende have a frightening dream?
(a) Paula
(b) William
(c) Meme
(d) Ernesto

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

3. What had Allende recently completed?
(a) A new novel
(b) A trip around the world
(c) Knitting a sweater
(d) A cooking course

4. What does Allende try to force Paula's doctors to do?
(a) Turn off Paula's life support
(b) Give Paula a blood transfusion
(c) Send Paula home
(d) Wean Paula off oxygen

5. 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

6. What position had Allende's father held in Peru?
(a) Ambassador to the Chilean embassy
(b) Congressman
(c) Senator
(d) Secretary to the Chilean embassy

7. How many years are Paula and Ernesto married when Paula gets sick?
(a) Just past seven
(b) Not quite one
(c) Almost five
(d) Nearly two

8. Who lures Allende into the woods for inappropriate reasons?
(a) A traveling salesman
(b) A local fisherman
(c) A cab driver
(d) A policeman

9. Who is Meme?
(a) Allende's poodle
(b) Allende's aunt
(c) Allende's daughter
(d) Allende's grandmother

10. How old was Allende when she married her first husband, Michael?
(a) 16
(b) 29
(c) 21
(d) 19

11. What is important to know about Paula at this time?
(a) She is critically ill
(b) She is starting a business
(c) She has just graduated
(d) She has just married

12. What book did Allende read on the sly when her parents were out?
(a) Peyton Place
(b) The Joy of Sex
(c) A Thousand and One Nights
(d) Tropic of Cancer

13. Allende states that the only certainty of her life was _____________________.
(a) The hospital
(b) Her husband
(c) Her books
(d) Prayer

14. Who has been Allende's constant companion while in Madrid?
(a) Ernesto
(b) Her mother
(c) Willie
(d) Pancho

15. What happens when Allende's father is involved in scandals in Peru?
(a) He is jailed
(b) He is put on trial
(c) He is exiled
(d) The family must return to Chile

Short Answer Questions

1. Who seems more fatalistic about Paula's possible death?

2. What does Allende think is the most beautiful part of Chile?

3. The book is written as if it were _______________.

4. How many years was Ernesto's father in exile in South America?

5. Where would Tata take Allende and her brothers sometimes?

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