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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Paco recalls that the only thing about the Phiippines he recalls his father telling him was about what natural feature?
(a) Valleys.
(b) Mountains.
(c) Lakes.
(d) Rivers.

4. Who tells Pepe that Connie has been married for nearly a year and that Connie had lied to him?
(a) Macho.
(b) The Senor de Vidal.
(c) Paco.
(d) The Senora de Vidal.

5. For how many weeks did Connie go missing in her adolescence the time she was found working in a chop suey restaurant?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 6.
(d) 2.

6. 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?
(a) Connie.
(b) Rita.
(c) Senora de Vidal.
(d) Mary.

7. What is the last name of the man named Paco, with whom Connie is carrying on an extramarital affair?
(a) Taqueria.
(b) Texiera.
(c) Castanato.
(d) Lexiero.

8. How old is the man married to Connie, according to Connie's mother?
(a) 50.
(b) 30.
(c) 40.
(d) 20.

9. At what age did Connie run away from home for the first time, according to Connie?
(a) 17.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 15.

10. Connie announces that Pepe must take her away from what location when she finds out that Macho is nearby?
(a) The bar.
(b) Hong Kong.
(c) The restaurant.
(d) Her hotel.

11. What event led to the destruction of the famous house about which Pepe had always heard?
(a) Monsoon.
(b) War.
(c) Earthquake.
(d) Gentrification.

12. Pepe's family used to own a famous house in Binondo, one of the oldest parts of which city?
(a) Fresno.
(b) Kowloon.
(c) Quito.
(d) Manila.

13. What kind of liar does Pepe call Connie when they run into one another on the balcony at the Tovarich?
(a) Ridiculous.
(b) Practiced.
(c) Masterful.
(d) Horrible.

14. Connie tells Pepe that by the time she reached what age, "she had become indifferent" (4) to her physical abnormality?
(a) Middle age.
(b) Adolescence.
(c) School age.
(d) Twenties.

15. When the narrator rejoins Connie and Pepe in Chapter 1 some time after their departure from the Tovarich, in what color car are they "racing up the peak" (90)?
(a) Aubergine.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

1. Paco is part Filipino and part what other nationality, according to the narrator of Chapter 1: Paco?

2. Pepe recalls his father's continual assertion that "The house of our" what "is waiting for us to come home" (15)?

3. In what make of car are Connie and Pepe riding when they are portrayed as "racing up a peak in an open car, the fleeing road continually swering away so abruptly they seemed every moment about to spring into space, into the white night glittering beyond the sheer edge of the road, howing with wild wind" (90)?

4. When Pepe shows up at Rita's place and leaves Connie outside the door, Rita thinks that he is there to take what action?

5. What is the first name of Connie's husband?

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