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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is NOT a comment used to describe Connie as she draws a crowd on the dance floor at the Tovrich?
(a) Her hair is swinging.
(b) Her young eyes are bright and untroubled. 89
(c) Her head is tossed back.
(d) She has a haughty look.

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

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

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

6. How many children do Paco and his wife Mary have together?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

7. What kind of brat does Pepe call Connie during their encounter at the Tovarich?
(a) Terrible.
(b) Sociopathic.
(c) Spoiled.
(d) Unendurable.

8. 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)?
(a) Macho.
(b) Mary.
(c) Rita.
(d) Paco.

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

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

11. What is the name of Pepe's wife?
(a) Marianne.
(b) Rachel.
(c) Rita.
(d) Mary.

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

13. With what material is the bundle of evidence bound that Connie considers proof of Macho's dalliance with her mother, Senora de Vidal?
(a) A rubber band.
(b) A wax seal.
(c) A silk cord.
(d) A piece of twine.

14. Connie says that when which character told her that Macho wanted to marry her, she had been "so relieved, so grateful" (95)?
(a) Macho.
(b) Mary.
(c) Paco.
(d) Senora de Vidal.

15. What is the name of the woman who claims to have two navels at the start of the chapter entitled "Paco"?
(a) Mary.
(b) Angela.
(c) Mara.
(d) Connie.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. 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?

3. Which member of Pepe's family "has been quietly going to pieces" (26) since taking a trip to Manila?

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

5. In what type of music is Paco most interested?

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