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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 Pilar find in her mother's hosiery drawer?
(a) Money.
(b) Cupcakes.
(c) Photographs of Celia.
(d) Love letters.

2. Who does Jorge force to learn accounting?
(a) Celia.
(b) His mother.
(c) Lourdes.
(d) Javier.

3. What does Celia report about Lourdes in her letter to Gustavo?
(a) Lourdes is going back to school.
(b) Lourdes is planning a vacation.
(c) Lourdes is seeing a new man.
(d) Lourdes is pregnant.

4. Why does Lourdes stop eating in Imagining Winter: A Matrix Light?
(a) To purify herself.
(b) She cannot afford to buy food.
(c) To protest the regime.
(d) To lose weight.

5. What does Pilar believe with help her understand her grandmother?
(a) The right side of her face.
(b) Asking Lourdes questions about her.
(c) Spending more time with her.
(d) Writing her letters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who writes a letter to El Lider about Ernesto's death?

2. What is the topic of the book Pilar gives Lourdes in Imagining Winter: Enough Attitude?

3. What message does Pilar include on her painting of Lady Liberty?

4. What does the elderly man at the botanica give Pilar?

5. What does Celia contemplate, once spring arrives at the end of the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Felicia support Herminia when her son dies?

2. How does Celia respond to the religious attendees trying to soothe Felicia as she nears death?

3. Why are the women in town attracted to Javier?

4. What does Pilar believe will help her understand Celia's sadness?

5. What does Lourdes prefer to do, rather than listen to Ivanito's dreams?

6. Why does Felicia pour lye on Graciela Moriera's scalp?

7. What does Celia say Jorge is jealous about?

8. While Pilar is out shopping, what does she realize is the only time in life she felt determined?

9. Why does Lourdes suggest Pilar move to Russia?

10. What does Jorge admit about his plan to break Celia by leaving her with his family?

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