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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How old was Allende when she met her current husband, Willie?
(a) In her 40s
(b) In her 50s
(c) In her 30s
(d) In her 20s
2. Allende wished that she was _________________.
(a) Thinner
(b) A boy
(c) Shorter
(d) A scholar
3. What does Allende's mother give her to express herself?
(a) Dance lessons
(b) A piano
(c) A diary
(d) Drama lessons
4. What book did Allende read on the sly when her parents were out?
(a) The Joy of Sex
(b) A Thousand and One Nights
(c) Tropic of Cancer
(d) Peyton Place
5. What happened to the marriage between Allende's parents?
(a) They remained legally separated
(b) They remained married
(c) They divorced
(d) It was annulled
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is Tomas?
2. Who was actually the policeman that Tio Ramon brought to the house to scare the children after they took chocolates?
3. Where did Allende paint murals?
4. What does Allende try to force Paula's doctors to do?
5. What did Tio give Allende on her ninth birthday?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Allende recall about the political unrest in Lebanon where the family was living in the late 1950s?
2. How does Allende's opinion of Tio Ramon change over the years?
3. How old is Allende in this section and what is the state of her mental and physical conditions?
4. What was Allende's job during the early days of her first marriage?
5. What are some of the positive and negative effects of Salvador Allende's election to president of Chile?
6. What loving acts do Paula's family members do prior to her death?
7. What scandal forces Allende to resign her job from a children's television show?
8. Allende decides to take Paula home with her to San Francisco and acknowledges that Paul's illness is the second major tragedy in her life? What does she say was the first?
9. How did Shakespeare's plays influence Allende's writing?
10. How do Allende and Ernesto differ in their outlooks for Paula's condition?
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