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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who pays for Fe's funeral Mass?
(a) Fe.
(b) The bank.
(c) Casimiro.
(d) Acme International.

2. What happens during the second year of Sofi's enterprise?
(a) Children are banned from the workplace.
(b) A group of women start a new cooperative.
(c) Employees start living in the facilities.
(d) The organization declares bankruptcy.

3. Who jumps off the mesa with Esmeralda?
(a) Helena.
(b) Francisco.
(c) Maria.
(d) Caridad.

4. How long will it take Doming to finish this project?
(a) Six months.
(b) Five years.
(c) He will never finish.
(d) Ten days.

5. What does Esperanza usually want to talk about?
(a) War and politics.
(b) Her new lover.
(c) Animals.
(d) Heaven.

6. What does Sofi sell to her neighbors?
(a) Her fresh pies.
(b) Her chickens.
(c) Her time.
(d) Her butcher shop.

7. How long is Fe married before she dies?
(a) It is unclear.
(b) Ten years.
(c) About one year.
(d) Three days.

8. Why are there so many volunteers for the cooperative?
(a) Many people are unemployed.
(b) The government tells them they have to.
(c) They get free food.
(d) They might earn enough to buy a house.

9. What is Felicia afraid of when Loca becomes ill?
(a) That she will never fall in love again.
(b) That her years of training will not help her cure Loca.
(c) That she will die before Loca does.
(d) That she will live forever.

10. What do Felicia and Doctor Tolentino drink together sometimes?
(a) Mexican beer.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Rum.
(d) Hot chocolate.

11. What does Loca wear during the Way of the Cross procession?
(a) Esperanza's robe.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Her mother's dress.
(d) Her sisters' jewelry.

12. What does Domingo decide to build?
(a) A huge birdhouse.
(b) Caridad's house.
(c) A new addition to their bedroom.
(d) A treehouse for his granchildren.

13. Why does Caridad think she has a fatal touch?
(a) Everyone close to her dies.
(b) She prays that people will die, and then they do.
(c) She had a disturbing dream.
(d) She overheard her father saying so.

14. How long is Sofi president of her organization?
(a) Eighteen years.
(b) Thirty-eight years.
(c) She is never president.
(d) Three months.

15. Who lives in the house Caridad has been watching?
(a) Maria and Esmeralda.
(b) Sofi and Don Domingo.
(c) Sofi and La Loca.
(d) Helena and Maria.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Felicia and Doctor Tolentino talk about together?

2. Who is Caridad in love with?

3. How old is Loca when people hear she is dying?

4. Why does Francisco think that Caridad holds a grudge against him?

5. What do people speak about at the procession?

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