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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Tony Baba's wife like?
(a) She was a homebody who loved cleaning her house.
(b) She was an intellectual.
(c) She was frigid and adored her cat.
(d) She was warm and friendly to everyone.

2. Which of Lencho's children barely touches the food at the birthday party?
(a) Buzz Saw.
(b) Maria.
(c) Pedro.
(d) Chalito.

3. What was Buzz Saw's real name?
(a) Amadito.
(b) Jose.
(c) Pedro.
(d) Jorge.

4. What does Lencho buy at the supermarket?
(a) 10 pounds of cut-up chicken.
(b) A birthday cake and candy.
(c) Steaks and chops.
(d) A week's worth of groceries.

5. Who did Tony Baba say he looked like when he viewed himself naked in the mirror?
(a) Like a Greek statue.
(b) Like a movie star.
(c) Like Napoleon, but stronger and taller.
(d) Like a weight-lifter.

6. Describe Chalito's coffin.
(a) It's white with a gold cross painted on it.
(b) It's a pine box lined with fir branches.
(c) It's blue with white wings.
(d) It's pale blue with angels painted on it.

7. Describe Loreto's pants and what happens to him because of them?
(a) Stiff with dirt, an ant crawls in, making Loreto dance.
(b) Tight like a bullfighter's pants, causing women to stare.
(c) Very Mexican and colorful, theyre a draw for tourists.
(d) They're ragged and cause pity among the tourists.

8. Who took Loreto's spot on the street?
(a) Several little kids.
(b) An old beggar woman
(c) A prostitute
(d) A rival car washer

9. Dosa de Cocuch has what bad habit?
(a) She takes drugs.
(b) She chews gum.
(c) She's a chain smoker.
(d) She chews tobacco.

10. What kind of a man is Vate?
(a) He's an optimistic, happy man.
(b) He's a hard-working, practical man.
(c) He's a sad man.
(d) He's a mystical, almost priest-like man.

11. What kind of character did Tony Baba's grandmother's have?
(a) She was a sweet old-fashioned grandmother.
(b) She was like a loving mother to him.
(c) She was a fierce revolutionary.
(d) She was reprehensible and exploited and underpaid her workers.

12. Who are Don and Dosa de Cocuch?
(a) A noble couple from Spain.
(b) The mayor and his wife.
(c) The wealthy couple Loreto ran into before.
(d) Distant relatives of Loreto.

13. What was the distinguishing factor about the Babas' bathroom?
(a) It had a large, sunken tub.
(b) It had a view of the mountains from the window.
(c) It was huge.
(d) It was lined with mirrors.

14. What does Senora Davalos de Cocuch give to Chalito's mother?
(a) A fancy funeral for Chalito.
(b) A gravestone for Chalito.
(c) A check for Chalito's coffin.
(d) A sympathy note and flowers.

15. The reader is told the sad story of how a young woman is lured into prostitution by whom?
(a) A starving family.
(b) Two traveling salesmen.
(c) Dona Reginalda and her supposed son.
(d) A woman disguised as a nun.

Short Answer Questions

1. After he gives up washing cars, what does Loreto do for money?

2. Don de Cocuch spent a lot of time around what animals?

3. Which worker does Tony Baba's grandmother intensely dislike and why?

4. Where does the narrator run into Chuco ten years later?

5. What does Monon Lopez do?

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