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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lydia.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the girl do in "The Lesson of the Sugarcane" while she waited in the car?
(a) Cried.
(b) Sweated.
(c) Slept.
(d) Day-dreamed.

2. What happen to some of the mother's prayers?
(a) They get lost in the kitchen.
(b) They dissolve into space.
(c) They haunt the apartment.
(d) They fall on the girl.

3. Where did the girl's father read her diary?
(a) In his bedroom.
(b) In the kitchen.
(c) In her bedroom.
(d) In the living room.

4. How does the girl's father respond to the salesman in "Not For Sale"?
(a) He is saddened.
(b) He is confused.
(c) He is pleased.
(d) He is outraged.

5. What does Dona Ernestina do with the flags the government offered her?
(a) She is having them framed.
(b) She denied them.
(c) She keeps them in a drawer.
(d) She burned them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Marina watch an old man on the beach?

2. The book of dreams in Spanish says that the tree represents what?

3. What was the girl's father's day job?

4. In "Lydia", how long has it been since the woman has seen Lydia?

5. What does the girl do with her diary at the end of "Absolution in the New Year"?

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