1. What is the family forced to do?
(a) Leave Mexico for Argentina.
(b) Move back to Paris.
(c) Sell their gardens and stables.
(d) Sell the house.

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

3. What difficulty does Rodrigo have growing up?
(a) Without a father.
(b) He is poor.
(c) He has a learning disability.
(d) His mother is unkind.

4. How does Ixca observe all the major characters?
(a) With a critical and knowing eye.
(b) As if they are from the same social class.
(c) In a vague and uncaring way.
(d) In a biased way.

5. What does Bobo begin to do the morning after the party?
(a) Laundry.
(b) Plan the next party.
(c) Calling his guests.
(d) Clean up after his guests.

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

7. What is Robles' plan before the wars begin?
(a) Enter the seminary and become a priest.
(b) Run a daycare center.
(c) Join the military.
(d) Become a teacher.

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

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

10. To what does Norma devote herself?
(a) Her family.
(b) Her education.
(c) Marrying wealthy.
(d) Her mother.

11. What does she plan to do after she has landed her millionaire?
(a) Spend his money on herself.
(b) Buy her family a new home.
(c) Be generous.
(d) Move to Europe.

12. When is the last time she sees her family?
(a) Since last night.
(b) Since she left home.
(c) Since that morning.
(d) Since she was twenty.

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

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

15. What does Norma realize after a flirtation with a young poet?
(a) She wants to stop flirting and settle down.
(b) She does not want to be trapped in a life of poverty with him.
(c) She has fallen in love with his poetry, not him.
(d) She is in love with him and wants to marry him.