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

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

3. What is Mexico City?
(a) A noble land unlike any other.
(b) A disgraceful place.
(c) Just like any other city in Mexico.
(d) A strange and ugly city.

4. 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 has fallen in love with his poetry, not him.
(c) She wants to stop flirting and settle down.
(d) She does not want to be trapped in a life of poverty with him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Gladys Garcia?

2. What difficulty does Rodrigo have growing up?

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

4. Why do the other men resist?

5. On whom does Norma utterly depend to raise her in the social hierarchy?

Short Essay Questions

1. About what does Robles think while Ixca and Manuel are speaking?

2. Describe Bobo's parties.

3. What do Bobo's guests do after the party?

4. About what does Robles talk with Ixca?

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

6. Of what does Dona Lorenza remain convinced?

7. What does Gervasio insist the men do to have a better chance of success? What is their reaction to this?

8. Describe Gervasio and his companions' plans.

9. How does Ixca try to help Rodrigo Pola?

10. Why does Natasha give Rodrigo advice? What advice does she give him?

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