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

2. In what does Zamacona think a problem consists?
(a) Not being a nation of one origin.
(b) The running of the country by thieves and thugs.
(c) Not truly understanding one's origins.
(d) The middle class not having the right to vote.

3. What does Dona Lorenza believe about the political and economic shifts?
(a) They are merely temporary.
(b) They are permanent and hopeless.
(c) They will benefit her family.
(d) They are better for Mexico.

4. What does Gervasio announce when he reaches the outpost?
(a) His readiness to join the movement.
(b) He is lost.
(c) He wants to go home.
(d) He is ready to join the Federal army.

5. In what does Ibarra specialize?
(a) Labor law.
(b) Real estate law.
(c) Oral surgery.
(d) Medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Rodrigo complain?

2. As opposed to Hortensia, what is Norma?

3. What has happened to General Zapata?

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

5. Who is Gervasio Pola?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rodrigo's mother say about his father in a moment of weakness?

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

3. What does Manuel believe about Mexican culture and politics?

4. What does Robles say to Norma, regarding their lost fortune?

5. What does Dona Lorenza believe must be maintained?

6. What takes place between Pimpenela and Ixca?

7. How does Robles disagree with Manuel?

8. How does Norma find herself after the storm?

9. What does Norma vow?

10. What does Ixca urge the city to do?

(see the answer keys)

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