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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Trujillo allow to be released?
(a) Patria
(b) Pedrito
(c) Nelson
(d) Minerva

2. Where does Trujillo talk about his biggest obstacles?
(a) A public meeting
(b) His council
(c) The prison
(d) A dinner party

3. Who is forced to watch Mary Teresa be tortured?
(a) Minerva
(b) Nelson
(c) Leandro
(d) All of the above

4. What month does Minerva travel to visit her husband?
(a) October
(b) December
(c) November
(d) September

5. What title does Victor have?
(a) Captain
(b) Commander
(c) Colonel
(d) Commandant

6. How many women are in the cell with Minerva?
(a) 23
(b) 33
(c) 43
(d) 13

7. What does Mary Teresa experiment with in prison?
(a) All of these
(b) Drugs
(c) Alcohol
(d) Homosexuality

8. What is Victor’s job?
(a) To keep tabs on the family
(b) To find girls for Trujillo
(c) To spy on the rebellion
(d) To threaten people for Trujillo

9. What happens to Minerva when what she hoped for after being released from prison doesn’t happen?
(a) Her spirit is crushed
(b) Her love for her husband diminishes
(c) Her devotion switches sides
(d) Her family turns against her

10. Who raises the children of the murdered sisters?
(a) Mercedes
(b) Pedrito
(c) Dede
(d) Margarita

11. Where does the family members not arrested stay while others are in prison?
(a) Dede’s house
(b) Rebel headquarters
(c) The farm
(d) Mercedes’s house

12. How does Patria travel to visit her husband?
(a) She walks
(b) She drives
(c) She takes a bus
(d) She does not visit him

13. What does Trujillo say is his biggest obstacle?
(a) The soldiers
(b) The Mirabal sisters
(c) The church
(d) The United States

14. When did Dede have some serious marital problems?
(a) 1955
(b) 1950
(c) 1965
(d) 1960

15. Who is Rufino?
(a) The messenger
(b) The guard
(c) The chauffer
(d) The doctor

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Margarita related to Patria?

2. What is Trujillo seeking?

3. Where did Dede see Lio after her sisters’ murder?

4. What does Patria try to do before she heads home after visiting her husband?

5. What is Margarita’s last name?

(see the answer keys)

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