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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Section 4, " Rosenda".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dona Lorenza impress this upon Benjamin?
(a) Taking him to art museums.
(b) Reading him books.
(c) Taking him to sleep amid the family portraits.
(d) Listening to records.

2. How does Rodrigo Pola react to her response about his father?
(a) He is angry and argues with her.
(b) He is surprised.
(c) He is relieved.
(d) He withdraws both socially and from his mother.

3. What do most of the characters do after the party?
(a) Stay at Bobo's.
(b) Sleep late or lay in bed.
(c) Stay in a hotel.
(d) Meet for an early breakfast.

4. What does she wisely recognize about her looks?
(a) They are very plain.
(b) They are her chief asset in life.
(c) They will not get her far.
(d) They are in need of improvement.

5. What do they find when they return to Mexico in 1935?
(a) Many new friends.
(b) A changed land.
(c) Their property the way they had left it.
(d) A beautiful, unchanged land.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is the narrator now dealing?

2. What does Bobo begin to do the morning after the party?

3. In what does Zamacona think a problem consists?

4. What is Norma's main fear?

5. What causes the family to temporarily relocate to New York City and then Paris?

(see the answer key)

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