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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Azuena's Guardian Angel monitor at the beginning of chapter eight?
(a) Azucena's cooking.
(b) Azucena's depression.
(c) Azucena's illness.
(d) Azucena's gambling.

2. What device does Azucena want from Dr. Díez?
(a) A device used to communicate with plants.
(b) A device that bypasses auric field blocks.
(c) A device that he invented to hear the thoughts of others.
(d) A device that photographs someone's aura, and detects traces of who has been in contact with that person.

3. What does Isabel suspect?
(a) Mammon's work proposal.
(b) Her daughter's political intentions.
(c) The termite report on her new home.
(d) People plotting against her.

4. How is Isabel Gonzale characterized?
(a) She is merciless, ambitious, and cruel.
(b) She is painfully shy.
(c) She is kind and generous.
(d) She is an idealist, and may make a great partner for Azucena.

5. How does Mammon characterize the Guardian Angels' work?
(a) Difficult.
(b) As a constant uphill battle.
(c) Easier than the work of the demons.
(d) Much less interesting than his own work.

6. What frustrates Anacreonte about Azucena?
(a) She does not follow orders.
(b) She insists on breaking the Law of Love.
(c) She constantly interrupts.
(d) She refuses to look for a job.

7. What is the Law of Love?
(a) A set of Natural Laws that govern the universe.
(b) Laws that govern suitable sexual behavior in Mexico City.
(c) The Laws set out by Aztec gods that govern love and reproduction.
(d) Laws governing romantic love.

8. What does Carmela do after speaking with Isabel about her dress?
(a) She decides to change, and asks Agapito to help her chose something else to wear.
(b) She cries.
(c) She purchases accessories.
(d) She calls her tailor.

9. Why does Hernán Cortés decide to build a new city on an ancient one?
(a) He quickly understood that he had to obliterate all traces of the ancient city in Aztec memory.
(b) He feels that he should utilize the large labor force available to him in this area.
(c) He enjoys the altitude and other unique geographical features of the city.
(d) He believes that God wanted for him to establish an even greater city in its place.

10. What does Azucena do with the dead body that she finds in chapter seven?
(a) She burries it in the apartment courtyard.
(b) She sends it home via aerophone.
(c) She takes it to the police department.
(d) She leaves it on Cuquita's doorstep.

11. Why does Rodrigo send for a wife from Spain?
(a) He hopes that by bringing a wife he can feel more established in his new home.
(b) He misses his wife and yearns to see her again.
(c) He wants someone to cook the familiar dishes he misses, especially fresh baked bread.
(d) He needs a wife to keep his residents and laborers.

12. What does the narrator of chapter five say about human intelligence?
(a) Humans are not smart enough to truly understand the idea of good and evil.
(b) Humans can be brilliant, but when we list to outside advice, we are basically stupid.
(c) Humans are quite intelligent.
(d) Humans are basically unintelligent, and need to experience things in the flesh.

13. Why does Isabel disintegrate her daughter?
(a) Isabel is jealous of her daughter's beauty.
(b) Isabel wants to organize her life in order to be able to better care for her daughter in the future.
(c) Isabel believes that there may be a cure for her daughter's illness in the future.
(d) Isabel believes that her daughter would have been subversive because of her astrological chart.

14. Who is Anacreonte?
(a) A reincarnated Spainsh conqueror.
(b) A hit man.
(c) Azucena's Guardian Angel.
(d) Azucena's twin soul.

15. Who are called the "supreme Reconcilers" in chapter two?
(a) Guardian Angels.
(b) Artists.
(c) Beings who have been reincarnated enough times to learn all of life's lessons.
(d) Politicians.

Short Answer Questions

1. In chapter four, which character makes sloppy attempts to use elevated language?

2. Why does Rodrigo leave Azucena's apartment?

3. What is the song at the beginning of chapter eight about?

4. What does Anacreonte claim happens to what is internal?

5. What makes Azucena cry as she shops?

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