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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who seems more fatalistic about Paula's possible death?
(a) Meme
(b) Tata
(c) Allende
(d) Ernesto

3. What is Ernesto's profession?
(a) Doctor
(b) Lawyer
(c) Engineer
(d) Professor

4. How old is Allende when she returns to Tata's house from Lebanon?
(a) 15
(b) 10
(c) 18
(d) 21

5. Where does Ernesto's father return to?
(a) The Amazon
(b) Africa
(c) Bogota
(d) Paris

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

7. What is the name of Allende's husband and Paula's father?
(a) Mario
(b) Miguel
(c) Manuel
(d) Michael

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

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

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

11. To what city do Allende and her family return after the scandals in Peru?
(a) Santiago
(b) Nassau
(c) Rio de Janeiro
(d) Cancun

12. What happened to the marriage between Allende's parents?
(a) It was annulled
(b) They remained married
(c) They remained legally separated
(d) They divorced

13. Allende's daughter is in a hospital in what city?
(a) Santiago
(b) Lima
(c) Barcelona
(d) Madrid

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

15. Which of the following people does not come to the hospital from South America?
(a) Allende's husband
(b) Allende's mother
(c) Paula's father
(d) Ernesto's father

Short Answer Questions

1. Allende bases a character in which of her books on her grandmother?

2. What nationality was Michael?

3. What does Allende do after Paula has been in the hospital for 100 days?

4. What happens when Allende's father is involved in scandals in Peru?

5. How often is Allende allowed to see her daughter?

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