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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Section 6, "Federico Robles".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What has Gabriel forgotten when giving his mother a food processor?
(a) She does not want one.
(b) She already has one.
(c) The neighbors will be jealous.
(d) They have no electricity.

3. What does Robles study as a youth for the theological schools?
(a) Italian.
(b) French.
(c) Spanish.
(d) Latin.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does most of their house become?

3. With what is the narrator now dealing?

4. Who is Gervasio Pola?

5. Who is ruthlessly pushing his business interests forward by refusing to hear the case of an injured worker?

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