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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What fills the streets?
(a) Wild dogs.
(b) Refuse.
(c) People.
(d) Gasoline.

2. What does Rodrigo do the day after his mother finds his manuscript?
(a) He burns it.
(b) He shows it to his literary friends.
(c) He takes it to a publisher.
(d) He gives it to her as a gift.

3. Why does she buy a cigarette holder?
(a) To give to her husband.
(b) To hold her cigarettes.
(c) To imitate them.
(d) To donate to charity.

4. Who is Gladys Garcia?
(a) A new senator in the United States.
(b) Cienfuegos' mother.
(c) The mayor of Mexico City.
(d) An aging prostitute.

5. What is Rodrigo Pola doing at the wedding?
(a) Trying to charm a woman.
(b) Eating most of the food.
(c) Sitting alone.
(d) Taking photographs.

6. To whom does Zamacona lecture?
(a) The younger, eager crowd of writers.
(b) A class of grade school children.
(c) A crowd of blue collar workers.
(d) The old, wealthy aristocrats.

7. Upon what does Robles reflect?
(a) His bank.
(b) He no longer has to walk in the "flea circus" on the street.
(c) His marriage.
(d) The discussions he had at Bobo's party.

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

9. What is Norma's main fear?
(a) Robles will stop loving her.
(b) Robles cannot have children.
(c) She might bear an ugly child like Robles.
(d) She will never have children.

10. What drives Dona Lorenza?
(a) Her chauffeur.
(b) The need to keep native Mexican traditions.
(c) The need to be remembered.
(d) The need to maintain the family's honor and aristocratic heritage.

11. How does Robles regard Norma?
(a) As an enemy.
(b) As a perfect wife.
(c) As his best friend.
(d) As an idea, an image.

12. How do his poetry friends feel about not being consulted?
(a) They are surprised.
(b) They are happy.
(c) They are angry.
(d) They are hurt.

13. What was Robles once?
(a) A peasant farmer's son.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A businessman.
(d) A millionaire.

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

15. To whom does Robles compare Norma unfavorably?
(a) His mother.
(b) Mercedes.
(c) Hortensia.
(d) His sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Ibarra grow tired?

2. What has Gladys been doing since age thirteen?

3. What does Gervasio tell the men it is sometimes counterproductive to do?

4. To what does Robles compare the intensity and exhilaration he feels with Hortensia?

5. What does the quick portrait of Gladys show?

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