2. Why do Robles and Norma marry?
(a) Their families encourage them.
(b) They are betrothed.
(c) They are in love.
(d) To benefit one another.

3. What is their goal?
(a) To reach the shores of Miami.
(b) To reach Zapata headquarters at Tres Marina.
(c) To reach Mexico City.
(d) To overthrow the government.

4. What is Rodrigo supposed to be studying?
(a) Music.
(b) Education.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Law.

5. What does Norma do in the quest for her goal?
(a) She moves to Europe.
(b) She disowns her mother.
(c) She goes to business school.
(d) She buys a lot of baby clothes.

6. In what does Ibarra specialize?
(a) Real estate law.
(b) Oral surgery.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Labor law.

7. Looking back, what does Rodrigo feel about "lavender verse?"
(a) He wishes he had given it to his mother.
(b) He feels disdain.
(c) He wonders if he should have written it.
(d) He has fond memories of it.

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

9. What does Rodrigo's mother do when she finds his manuscript called "lavender verse?"
(a) She becomes very excited.
(b) She throws it away our of anger.
(c) She is unsure how to feel about his work.
(d) She becomes furious that he has wasted his time.

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

11. What does Gervasio remember about his companions?
(a) They ditched him.
(b) They do not wish to die together.
(c) They wish to die together.
(d) They are Federalists.

12. What does Norma know, even as a teenager?
(a) How to be a good person.
(b) How to make men fall for her.
(c) She is not attractive.
(d) She is wealthy.

13. Why do Prince Vampa, Charlotte Garcia, and Natasha hold the rest of the crowd in disdain?
(a) They consider themselves the only true heirs of Mexico's noble traditions.
(b) They are kind and loving, ot which the others cannot make sense.
(c) They are wealthier than anyone else at the party.
(d) They are rude and belligerent.

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

15. What does the quick portrait of Gladys show?
(a) The woman's struggle to become an American citizen.
(b) The woman's rise to power in the Mexican government.
(c) The struggles of her life raising seven children alone.
(d) The woman waking up in a wet street after a long night of work.