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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: Macho .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old does Connie say she is when Pepe asks her age?
(a) 30.
(b) 35.
(c) 40.
(d) 20.

2. Connie states in Chapter 1 that her father has always been "more of a" what to her, "somebody that gave [her] money on holidays" (91)?
(a) A friend.
(b) A grandfather.
(c) A stranger.
(d) An uncle.

3. How old was Paco when his father died, causing Paco to hardly remember the appearance of his father's face?
(a) 21.
(b) 11.
(c) 9.
(d) 13.

4. Which character has a younger brother named Tony?
(a) Paco.
(b) Macho.
(c) Roberto.
(d) Pepe.

5. Pepe recalls his father's continual assertion that "The house of our" what "is waiting for us to come home" (15)?
(a) Descendants.
(b) Fathers.
(c) Spirits.
(d) History.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Macho and Pepe first meet one another, Macho says that he has come to "fetch" which character "home before she causes any more talk" (121) to spoil her father's upcoming election?

2. With what material is the bundle of evidence bound that Connie considers proof of Macho's dalliance with her mother, Senora de Vidal?

3. Which character is described as having been "an imperious chieftain" to "that little group of child exiles who had grown up together on the Hong Kong streets" (78)?

4. Connie says that when which character told her that Macho wanted to marry her, she had been "so relieved, so grateful" (95)?

5. Connie reveals in Chapter 1 that before her father was in the government, he committed which action that she considers immoral?

(see the answer key)

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