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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 Reina bring with her to the funeral home to place in her mother's coffin?
(a) A handful of golden leaves.
(b) A pressed flower.
(c) A snakeskin.
(d) A photograph of Reina as a child.

2. What does Constancia sell for a living?
(a) Shoes.
(b) Used cars.
(c) Houses.
(d) Cosmetics.

3. How does Constancia feel about Herberto joining a militia group?
(a) She is apathetic to his life.
(b) She is completely supportive of it.
(c) She thinks it is ridiculous.
(d) She is confused by his choices.

4. What bird does Pepin bring into Reina's hospital room hoping it will sniff out the evil there?
(a) A rooster.
(b) A goose.
(c) A swan.
(d) A duck.

5. Where is Dulce hoping to visit as soon as her visa is approved?
(a) Italy.
(b) The United States.
(c) France.
(d) Spain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of scientist is Dr. Samuel Forrest?

2. Where is the gaping wound on Reina's mother's body?

3. Where is Ignacio's father, Reinaldo, born?

4. Which of the following characters works as a prostitute to make a living?

5. In what country do Ignacio and Blanca live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What memory haunts Reina in regards to her mother's death and visiting her at the funeral home?

2. How does Blanca's mother die?

3. What gifts does Reina give to Isabel and her new son, Raku?

4. Why does the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution come to visit Reina while she is recovering?

5. Why doesn't Reina want to work in Constancia's new factory?

6. How does Ignacio react to the news that his wife, Blanca, has gone missing?

7. How does Ignacio meet Dr. Samuel Forrest?

8. What is the time setting of the Prologue of the novel?

9. Why does Silvestre arrive in Miami?

10. Why doesn't Herberto fight at the Bay of Pigs, and how does he feel afterward?

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