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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. In what does Robles take delight?
(a) The power he has over everyone.
(b) His wife.
(c) His business and money.
(d) The feeling of power he has with Norma.

2. What does Ibarra claim about both he and Robles?
(a) They followed the same paths after the revolution.
(b) They had the same paths open to them after the revolution.
(c) They were always better than everyone else.
(d) They have always been best friends.

3. What does Norma realize after a flirtation with a young poet?
(a) She is in love with him and wants to marry him.
(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 wants to stop flirting and settle down.

4. How are Juan and Rosa Morales able to spend a rare night out at a cheap restaurant?
(a) They are lucky at the races.
(b) They get the night off from work.
(c) They win the lottery.
(d) A wealthy man drops his wallet.

5. What do the factory owners do to punish the workers who are striking?
(a) They refuse the workers food for weeks.
(b) They kill them.
(c) They taunt them.
(d) They fire them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Dona Lorenza?

2. What is Rodrigo Pola doing at the wedding?

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

4. What does Cienfuegos urge the city to do?

5. What has Gladys been doing since age thirteen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens once Norma and Robles meet?

2. How is the mother-son bond broken between Rosenda and Rodrigo?

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

4. What does Dona Lorenza believe must be maintained?

5. Who is Rodrigo Pola's only friend? What happens to their friendship?

6. Of what does Mercedes grow daily aware? To what does this lead?

7. How does Robles disagree with Manuel?

8. What remains impossible for Robles, regarding Norma? Why?

9. What does Rodrigo's mother expect from him? Does he do what she hopes?

10. What do Natasha and Rodrigo discuss?

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