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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 Natasha do for Rodrigo?
(a) She sits by him.
(b) She gives him advice.
(c) She pulls him away from the dessert table.
(d) She takes him home.

2. What is Robles' philosophy?
(a) His own success is also the country's.
(b) The best job is working for the common good.
(c) The harder he works, the more he gets.
(d) His struggle is the country's struggle.

3. Looking back, what does Rodrigo feel about "lavender verse?"
(a) He feels disdain.
(b) He has fond memories of it.
(c) He wishes he had given it to his mother.
(d) He wonders if he should have written it.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What fills the streets?

3. How does Robles regard Norma?

4. What does Gervasio do after remembering this about his companions?

5. What does Norma realize after a flirtation with a young poet?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Natasha and Rodrigo discuss?

2. What happens when Gervasio reaches the outpost?

3. How does Norma find herself after the storm?

4. Where does Beto end up on his night out with his friends?

5. How does Ixca describe Mexico?

6. Describe Teodula.

7. What does Norma realize about Ixca?

8. Describe Gervasio and his companions' plans.

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

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

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