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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 the main issue in the civil trial?
(a) Arson.
(b) Child neglect.
(c) An affair.
(d) Assault.

2. What causes Felicia's health to deteriorate?
(a) She has syphilis.
(b) Food poisoning.
(c) Her inability to deal with the loss of her father.
(d) The break up of her marriage.

3. What does Felicia put in the cake icing?
(a) Rat poison.
(b) Toothpaste.
(c) Smashed pills.
(d) Dirt.

4. Why do Lourdes and Rufino originally leave Cuba?
(a) They want to escape soldiers.
(b) They are worried about the economy in Cuba.
(c) Rufino is offered a job elsewhere.
(d) Lourdes wants to live some place cold.

5. Why does Lourdes fire her new employee?
(a) The woman lied on her resume.
(b) The woman has eyes for Rufino.
(c) The woman takes extremely long breaks.
(d) The woman steals from her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Celia say killed her father?

2. What does Celia tell her daughter not to bring in the house?

3. Why is Hugo forced to marry Felicia?

4. When did Pilar leave her Abuela Celia?

5. What does Celia guard at the start of Ordinary Seductions: Ocean Blue?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why must a goat be sacrificed to help Felicia?

2. What does Felicia realize about her mother's attraction to El Lider?

3. What does Ester Ugarte accuse Loli Regalado of in Imagining Winter: The Meaning of Shells?

4. What are Pilar's supernatural gifts?

5. Why does Celia name her son after her father?

6. Why does Lourdes fire her new employee at the bakery?

7. Under what condition does Celia tell Gustavo she will come find him?

8. How does Felicia attempt to kill her husband, Hugo?

9. What does Jorge reveal about Pilar when Lourdes is on her walk home from the bakery?

10. Why does Jorge allow his sister and mother to terrorize Celia?

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