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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. The author flashes back to what time in this section?
(a) When she graduated college
(b) When her mother and brothers returned to Santiago
(c) When she got married
(d) When Paula was born

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

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

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

5. What does Allende think is the most beautiful part of Chile?
(a) The cities
(b) The night skies
(c) The valleys
(d) The mountains

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Ernesto?

2. Allende believes she has received a premonition about _____________________.

3. What was not hidden in Tio Ramon's wardrobe?

4. How old is Allende when she returns to Tata's house from Lebanon?

5. What book did Allende read on the sly when her parents were out?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Ernesto's devotion to his wife, Paula.

2. How did Shakespeare's plays influence Allende's writing?

3. What other relatives come to the hospital to visit Paula?

4. How does Allende's distress about Paula exhibit in dreams?

5. How do Allende and Ernesto both let go of Paula?

6. Explain some of Allende's activities in Chile that put her family in danger.

7. 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?

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

9. Explain the courtship between Allende and her first husband, Michael.

10. What information does Allende provide to begin her book?

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