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

2. Which of the following does Ernesto not do during Paula's illness?
(a) Brings flowers
(b) Makes tape recorded messages
(c) Visits every day
(d) Leaves items under her pillow

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many years are Paula and Ernesto married when Paula gets sick?

3. Who has been Allende's constant companion while in Madrid?

4. What position had Allende's father held in Peru?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What were Allende's political beliefs and how did she feel about President Salvador Allende?

2. Who is Tio Ramon?

3. What does Allende do when her daughter slips into a coma?

4. What does the author call this section of the book?

5. What loving acts do Paula's family members do prior to her death?

6. What does Allende recall about the political unrest in Lebanon where the family was living in the late 1950s?

7. Describe Allende's son, Nicolas, during his teenage years in Caracas.

8. What was the result of Allende's affair?

9. What scandal forces Allende to resign her job from a children's television show?

10. What initiated Allende's writing her first book?

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