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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Section 5, "The De Ovandos".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Dona Lorenza?
(a) The mayor of Mexico City.
(b) A poor prositute in a dirty part of town.
(c) The matriarch of the de Ovando family.
(d) Mercedes' mother.

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

3. What does Robles believe he has earned the right to do?
(a) Sleep in.
(b) Go on a vacation.
(c) Take the day off from work.
(d) Elevate himself about the bankrupt nonentities forever.

4. What does Cienfuegos urge the city to do?
(a) Ask the government for assistance.
(b) Secede from Mexico.
(c) Join together and raise itself up again.
(d) Call upon the United States for assistance.

5. Why is the impoverished Countess at the party?
(a) For the food.
(b) To try to coerce others into giving her money.
(c) To find a husband.
(d) For the comfort of friends.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Dona Lorenza teach Benjamin?

3. Why do Prince Vampa, Charlotte Garcia, and Natasha hold the rest of the crowd in disdain?

4. What is the family forced to do?

5. What is their goal?

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