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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What new position allows Lourdes to walk around town?
(a) Crossing guard.
(b) Census worker.
(c) Magazine sales person.
(d) Auxiliary policewoman.

2. What suddenly disgusts Lourdes in Imagining Winter: A Matrix Light?
(a) Solid foods.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Walking.
(d) Pilar.

3. What does Celia say Javier wins in her letter?
(a) A bingo game.
(b) A car.
(c) A coloring contest.
(d) A science prize.

4. Who does Felicia meet when she is six years old?
(a) Ernesto.
(b) Rigoberto.
(c) Milagro.
(d) Herminia.

5. What does Pilar feel as she leans against the tree where she is attacked?
(a) The presence of her ancestors.
(b) The pulse in the roots of the tree.
(c) The chill in the air.
(d) The warmth of the sun.

6. In Imagining Winter: A Matrix Light, _____finds _____ cheating on her.
(a) Felicia/Hugo.
(b) Lourdes/Rufino.
(c) Celia/Jorge.
(d) Pilar/Ruben.

7. What does Felicia ask her new friend to do for her?
(a) To loan her some shells.
(b) To buy her some ice cream.
(c) To save her.
(d) To do her homework.

8. Who does Celia say is rid from the country in her last letter?
(a) Batista.
(b) Guevara.
(c) Machado.
(d) Castro.

9. What does Celia find while searching through Felicia's old belongings?
(a) Shells.
(b) A dream journal.
(c) A report card.
(d) An old black swimming suit.

10. After Lourdes decorates her house, who changes it back the way it was?
(a) Rufino.
(b) Celia.
(c) A cheating accountant.
(d) Rufino's mother.

11. What does Celia contemplate, once spring arrives at the end of the story?
(a) What her grave stone might read.
(b) What she will plant in her garden.
(c) The last time she saw Gustavo.
(d) How many grandchildren she will have.

12. Felicia urges her new husband, Otto, to take her on a _____.
(a) Motorcycle.
(b) Roller coaster.
(c) Horse ride.
(d) Nature walk.

13. Who tells Ivanito that vile things will be said to him/her in Russia?
(a) Celia.
(b) Javier.
(c) Pilar.
(d) Sergey Mikoyan.

14. Who expresses love for the music of Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, and the Ramones?
(a) Lourdes.
(b) Rufino.
(c) Pilar.
(d) Rufino's mother.

15. In Imagining Winter: Daughters of Chango, what reason does Jorge give Lourdes for wanting to escape Celia?
(a) She was leaving him for Gustavo.
(b) She thought only of the Revolution.
(c) He found another woman in New York.
(d) She tried to kill him.

Short Answer Questions

1. After what event in 1978 does Felicia return to her best friend and the Yoruban religion?

2. Why are Felicia's parents afraid of her new friend's father?

3. What does Celia cheer for in her last letter?

4. Who does Felicia want to greet her after her initiation?

5. When Celia returns to her home in Santa Teresa del Mar, she knows Javier has already left to _____.

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