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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Section 9, "Parting Of The Waters".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has made Norma bold and self-certain?
(a) Her relationship with Ixca.
(b) Her love for her husband.
(c) Her new wealth.
(d) Her brush with death.

2. What later fills her with contempt?
(a) The fact she left the sweet poet.
(b) Her marriage to Robles.
(c) The denial of her love for the poet.
(d) The kiss she shares with the poet in a kitchen garden.

3. What did both of Rodrigo's parents fear?
(a) Being poor.
(b) Being unloved.
(c) Being left alone.
(d) Losing their son.

4. What can Mexico not shake?
(a) Its lethargy, its poverty, and its envy of Europe.
(b) Its reputation for beautiful waterfalls and jungles.
(c) Its wealth, its commerce, and its shallow citizens.
(d) Its fast-pace urban setting.

5. What does Dona Lorenza teach Benjamin?
(a) Of their many lands, honors, and conquests in the military and political sphere.
(b) To not trust the local Mexicans.
(c) About the history of Mexico.
(d) About the importance of a European education.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the family forced to do?

2. How does Norma feel about the de Ovando women?

3. Who is Gervasio Pola?

4. What do they find when they return to Mexico in 1935?

5. What does Rodrigo lament not having?

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