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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who pays for Cesar and Nestor while they are in town?
(a) The studio.
(b) Their bandmates.
(c) Delores.
(d) Their managers.

2. Of what is there no hope for Nestor and Maria?
(a) Their love to end.
(b) Leaving Cuba.
(c) Distance to keep them from wanting to be together.
(d) Reconciliation.

3. How is their performance?
(a) Wonderful.
(b) Boring.
(c) Awful.
(d) Mediocre.

4. To where does Maria move?
(a) The other side of Cuba to escape Nestor.
(b) America.
(c) A little house with the man who had been beating her up on the night Nestor came to her rescue.
(d) Back to her family's home, away from Nestor.

5. What does Cesar do for his daughter?
(a) He sends her to presitigious American boarding schools.
(b) He sends cards and gifts regularly and flies to Havana to see her.
(c) He sends money to her mother, so she may attend the best schools.
(d) He does not do much, because he is so busy.

6. How many times does Nestor "Beautiful Maria of My Soul?"
(a) Four hundred.
(b) Never.
(c) Forty-four.
(d) Four.

7. Why does he stray from her?
(a) He loves another woman, named Maria.
(b) His Latin masculinity, claiming infidelity is the right of the Cuban man.
(c) He no longer loves her.
(d) She has betrayed him, and he wants to get revenge.

8. Why does Cesar keep the Mambo Kings together?
(a) Out of love for the music.
(b) Out of habit.
(c) In memory of his brother.
(d) He needs the money.

9. What grants Cesar and Nestor instant fame?
(a) Their appearance on the "I Love Lucy" show.
(b) A performance on the Lawrence Welk Show.
(c) Their performances at New York City night clubs.
(d) A performance for the President of the United States.

10. What happens to Nestor because of this?
(a) He has to call a tow truck.
(b) He has no car.
(c) He is seriously injured.
(d) He dies.

11. What does Cesar do to Delores?
(a) He finds her a job with the band.
(b) He leaves her.
(c) He makes a pass at her.
(d) He abuses her.

12. Who is waiting for the same bus as Nestor?
(a) Luisa Garcia.
(b) Erika Sanchez.
(c) Delores Fuentes.
(d) Maria Suarez.

13. What happens to the DeSoto?
(a) It hits a patch of ice and hits a tree.
(b) The breaks lock, and it hits a telephone pole.
(c) It breaks down in the middle of Pennsylvania.
(d) It is stolen in New Jersey.

14. What is realized over drinks?
(a) The owner of the club does not want them to return.
(b) Desi Arnaz is from the same area as the Castillo brothers.
(c) Benny More plays on the "I Love Lucy" show.
(d) Perez Prado and Tito Puente both played with Julian.

15. How does Cesar feel about his celebrity?
(a) He is ashamed of it.
(b) He worries about losing it.
(c) He basks in it.
(d) He is unsure about it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nestor do to help Maria?

2. What kind of advice does Cesar give Nestor?

3. What can Nestor not get out of his head?

4. What does Delores prepare for the guests?

5. Who are Cesar and Nestor Castillo?

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