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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom did Paco have an affair before having an affair with Connie?
(a) Jacqueline.
(b) Mary.
(c) Concha.
(d) Stephanie.

2. What two items did Connie throw into the pond as a young girl before lying to her family about being robbed?
(a) A watch and a necklace.
(b) A doll and a pair of earrings.
(c) A bracelet and a doll.
(d) A key and a doll.

3. Which member of the party at the Tovarich knows the bandleader Pete Alfonso?
(a) Rita.
(b) Paco.
(c) Mary.
(d) Pepe.

4. In what manner does Connie ask Pepe to forgive her after he calls her names on the balcony at the Tovarich?
(a) Defeated.
(b) Loving.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Angry.

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

6. Connie tells Pepe during their first meeting that what event had occurred that very morning?
(a) Her incarceration.
(b) Her mother's funeral.
(c) Her wedding.
(d) Her brother's wedding.

7. 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)?
(a) Lamborghini.
(b) Aston Martin.
(c) Jaguar.
(d) Bentley.

8. When Pepe goes to the balcony to speak to a particular character, Rita says that she will go home if Pepe is not back within how many minutes?
(a) 20.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 15.

9. At what type of location do Paco and Pepe have a conversation near the end of Chapter 1: Paco?
(a) A park.
(b) A school.
(c) A shooting range.
(d) A library.

10. What position does the man hold who is having an affair with Connie?
(a) Bandleader.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Artist.
(d) Mayor.

11. What kind of establishment is the Tovarich, where Mary, Rita, Paco, and Pepe go together in Chapter 2: Macho?
(a) A cockfighting venue.
(b) A coffee shop.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A nightclub.

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

13. Paco is part Filipino and part what other nationality, according to the narrator of Chapter 1: Paco?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Portuguese.
(c) Mexican.
(d) Peruvian.

14. What did Connie used to call her doll when she was a young girl?
(a) Molly.
(b) Angela.
(c) Princess.
(d) Minnie.

15. At what age did Connie run away from home for the first time, according to the Senora de Vidal?
(a) 11.
(b) 15.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the dress Connie wears to the Tovarich in Chapter 1: Paco?

2. 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)?

3. The woman named Concha is the mother of which character?

4. Pepe's family used to own a famous house in Binondo, one of the oldest parts of which city?

5. Connie claims to have discovered that other people only had one navel when she was how many years old?

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