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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 28 - 31).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what happens to Ana and Elisa as they are eating lunch outdoors?
(a) They are approached by soldiers and searched for stolen goods.
(b) They are caught in gun fire.
(c) They are caught in a fire.
(d) They are nearly killed when a car drives through the plaza.

2. In Chapter 23, what does Beatriz tell Elisa about what is happening in the prison?
(a) There are fights over food.
(b) There is not enough medicine.
(c) They are shooting people three times daily.
(d) The men are being forced to work.

3. In Chapter 30, what does the woman in the airport tell Marisol that makes her stiffen?
(a) It was nice to see Cuba in the last days of the Castro regime.
(b) She can not wait to get out of Cuba because it is dirty and poor.
(c) She did not like Cuba because everyone there spoke Spanish.
(d) It was nice to see Cuba in its natural state before tourists ruin it.

4. Why does Marisol travel to Cuba for the first time?
(a) To visit her lover.
(b) For a job interview.
(c) To leave her grandmother Elisa's ashes there per Elisa's request.
(d) To see the beaches.

5. In Chapter 13, what happened to Ana's family's rum business under Castro?
(a) It was nationalized.
(b) It was destroyed.
(c) It was broken into pieces and sold to American owners.
(d) Ana's family operated it as always.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Luis's mother?

2. What neighborhood in Havana did Elisa grow up in?

3. In Chapter 25, who kills the member of the Perez family who dies?

4. In Chapter 23, what does Elisa do when she hears the news about the conditions in the prison?

5. In Chapter 7, why does Beatriz sneak into her father's office?

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