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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the wedding guests do after the wedding?
(a) Go to the reception.
(b) Go home.
(c) Gossip spitefully about their hosts and each other.
(d) Go to Bobo's for a party.

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

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

5. What does Robles say is the challenge of the era?
(a) Reinstate the draft and mandatory military service.
(b) Reinvent the social security system.
(c) To create an education reform.
(d) Build capital for the nation and protect workers' rights.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does she plan to do after she has landed her millionaire?

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

3. For what is Norma dressing on a Sunday morning?

4. What has happened to General Zapata?

5. What do the factory owners do to punish the workers who are striking?

Short Essay Questions

1. Upon what does Pimpenela reflect?

2. How do the de Ovandos find Mexico when they return in 1935?

3. What does Norma use to get far in life?

4. What does Ixca urge the city to do?

5. To what does Ibarra devote himself? Describe his line of work.

6. How do both Ixca and Rodrigo feel about Norma?

7. What does the quick portrait of Gladys Garcia show?

8. Why does Ibarra not like his job?

9. Of what does Dona Lorenza remain convinced?

10. What does Robles learn from being in the military?

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