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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. What does Dona Lorenza believe about the political and economic shifts?
(a) They will benefit her family.
(b) They are better for Mexico.
(c) They are permanent and hopeless.
(d) They are merely temporary.

2. What does Rosenda confess?
(a) She has never loved her son.
(b) She does not miss her son.
(c) She does not want to die.
(d) She tried to replace the father's love with the son's.

3. With what is the narrator now dealing?
(a) Native Mexicans.
(b) Mexico's future.
(c) Mexico's revolutionary past.
(d) Mexico City.

4. What is Norma's main worry?
(a) Whether or not her husband loves her.
(b) How to get more admiration and attention.
(c) Keeping her wealth.
(d) When she will have children.

5. In what does Zamacona think a problem consists?
(a) Not truly understanding one's origins.
(b) The middle class not having the right to vote.
(c) The running of the country by thieves and thugs.
(d) Not being a nation of one origin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dona Lorenza teach Benjamin?

2. What does Norma realize after a flirtation with a young poet?

3. Who is the only woman that truly knows Robles?

4. What is the family forced to do?

5. As opposed to Hortensia, what is Norma?

(see the answer key)

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