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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Cuquita chat with about with the other passengers on the spacebus?
(a) The suspects in the Bush assassination.
(b) The Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
(c) The reason that she has to hide from Isabel.
(d) Plant Speakers.

2. Near the beginning of chapter twelve, what is Isabel afraid to do that might otherwise relax her?
(a) Fall asleep on the spaceshuttle.
(b) Turn off the lights in her bedroom.
(c) Take a hot bath.
(d) Disrobe for a massage.

3. What is the setting for chapter eleven?
(a) The Planet Korma, and return to Earth.
(b) Twenty third century Mexico City.
(c) The port of Veracruz.
(d) The capital of Mexico at the time of the conquest.

4. What happens as Azucena and her friends are chased by the police?
(a) Azucena falls and breaks her leg.
(b) Rodrigo runs from the group.
(c) Isabel arrives and begins to threaten Azucena.
(d) There is an earthquake.

5. What is Azucena's disguise on the spacebus?
(a) She is disguised as a pilgrim on the way to the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
(b) She dresses as a man.
(c) She has a fake mustache.
(d) She has exchanged her old body for the body of a well-known television personality.

6. What do the images from the African violet leaves' past reveal?
(a) What Isabel did in her life as Mother Teresa.
(b) Isabel Gonzalez knew Dr. Diez, and Dr. Diez was murdered.
(c) Where Isabel was during the 1985 earthquake.
(d) Why Dr. Diez was turned down for the Nobel Prize.

7. What does the narrator argue is the way to make a correct decision?
(a) The correct decision is within us, but we need silence to hear it.
(b) To contact your Guardian Angel.
(c) To shun the advice of others.
(d) To avoid contact with demons.

8. Which one of Azucena's companions dies in the police chase?
(a) Rodrigo.
(b) Citlali.
(c) Cuquita.
(d) Cuquita's grandmother.

9. What is the song at the beginning of chapter twelve about?
(a) Hope.
(b) Harvest time.
(c) Love
(d) Nature.

10. How do Azucena and Cuquita arrive to Korma?
(a) On Julio's interplanetary spaceship.
(b) Through a long-distance aerophone booth.
(c) Through a government program.
(d) Via Pluto.

11. In his past life as a monk, what does Rodrigo do?
(a) Study history.
(b) Write love songs.
(c) Invent new ways to curse.
(d) Work as part of the Inquisition.

12. What do the photomentals of Ex-Azucena show as he talks with Isabel in Chapter 11?
(a) His blocking Isabel out as she speaks and instead considering alternative job options.
(b) How much he would like to leave and get a snack.
(c) His imagining Isabel dead on the floor.
(d) How he wishes for her to turn into a diseased rat.

13. What does Azucena organize in chapter fourteen?
(a) Plans to work together with Carmela.
(b) A guerrilla war.
(c) A plan to revitalize her love life.
(d) A political plan to destroy Isabel.

14. What does the narrator of chapter twelve claim that wishes act as?
(a) Opportunities.
(b) Starting points for self-exploration.
(c) Challenges.
(d) Mirrors.

15. What causes Isabel to pass out?
(a) Her medicine.
(b) Trying to outrun the police.
(c) The heat of the day on Korma.
(d) Running from a volcanic explosion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isabel do in chapter twelve, when she is wants to calm her nerves and to think?

2. What does Isabel tell the reporter about airing information regarding Bush's assassination?

3. What is the mood in chapter eleven?

4. What does Azucena beg Anacreonte for?

5. What is the mood of chapter sixteen?

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