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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who leads the group to Tower Island?
(a) Rita's daughter.
(b) Rita.
(c) A friend Rita had met on a previous trip.
(d) The captain.

2. What does Rita observe about the Nicaraguans she meets over the eight months that she is there?
(a) They have an air of pride and confidence.
(b) They are very skittish.
(c) They act beaten and oppressed.
(d) They are very reserved.

3. The school makes arrangements for Rita to stay where?
(a) She stays with a young couple and their baby.
(b) She stays in a dorm.
(c) She stays in a bed and breakfast.
(d) She stays with an elderly couple.

4. How long does Rita want to stay in the Zapotec village?
(a) One week.
(b) Six months.
(c) One month.
(d) One year.

5. What response does Rita get when she asks about life in El Salvador?
(a) She is told that the living standards are rapidly improving.
(b) She is told that it is difficult, but improving.
(c) She is told that they will talk inside the truck where no one can hear them.
(d) She is told that it is a modern Utopia.

6. What does Rita experience at the campgrounds after visiting the Temple of the Inscriptions?
(a) A religious connection.
(b) A sense of dread.
(c) Psychedelic mushrooms.
(d) Hostility.

7. What community does Rita want to learn more about in Chapter 4?
(a) The elderly.
(b) The ex-pat community.
(c) The religious community.
(d) The street children .

8. How many days pass before the women in the village (aside from Margarita) begin to talk with Rita?
(a) One.
(b) Seven.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

9. What does Rita realize while she is touring the museums in Mexico City?
(a) She has no friends.
(b) She misses her husband.
(c) She is completely free to do whatever she wants.
(d) She has no concept of safety.

10. Who teaches Rita Indonesian?
(a) The maid.
(b) A school she attends in Indonesia.
(c) She teaches herself and won't accept help from anyone else.
(d) An American student.

11. What does Rita observe about the female frigatebirds?
(a) They are beautiful.
(b) They have beautiful voices.
(c) They are awkward and clumsy.
(d) They are never satisfied as far as she can see.

12. Felipe teaches Rita how to negotiate what?
(a) Arguments.
(b) Shells.
(c) Lava.
(d) Boats.

13. Of what is the author afraid at the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Illness.
(b) Strangers.
(c) Loneliness.
(d) Meeting people.

14. Why can't women sing during the service?
(a) They don't really know the correct pronunciations.
(b) They are too noisy.
(c) Their voices might tempt and distract the men.
(d) Their voices are too shrill.

15. Who does Rita imagine she sees when looking out over the plaza toward the Temple of the Inscriptions?
(a) Her traveling partners.
(b) Her children.
(c) Mayans.
(d) Her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the family picnic when they go to the beach?

2. What does Zahava want Rita to experience?

3. What does Rita say her profession is?

4. How do women react when Rita talks about her travels?

5. Where does Rita go on her first full day in Mexico City?

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