View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pablo tell Marisol he knows about Ana?
(a) Ana is making plans to leave Cuba illegally.
(b) Ana is going to die soon.
(c) Ana is really a spy.
(d) Elisa loved her very much.

2. In Chapter 26, what does Pablo tell Marisol about his interactions with Elisa's father?
(a) Pablo arranged for Elisa's father's safe passage to Miami.
(b) Pablo had tried to have Elisa's father arrested again after his release.
(c) Pablo arranged for Elisa's father's release from jail.
(d) Pablo arranged for Elisa's father to get and keep his own money.

3. In Chapter 17, what does Luis confess to Marisol that he does that is dangerous?
(a) Writes a blog critical of the regime under a pseudonym.
(b) Helps smuggle people on rafts to America.
(c) Protests with a face mask on.
(d) Sends money to relatives out of the country.

4. In Chapter 16, what happens between Elisa and Pablo at the house he takes her to?
(a) They have sex for the first time.
(b) They watch television.
(c) They eat dinner together.
(d) They attend a communist meeting together.

5. In Chapter 15, why had Batista closed the universities in 1956?
(a) He was afraid of the radical ideas coming out of them.
(b) He wanted to re-write the curriculum for history.
(c) He thought they were too expensive.
(d) He had never liked professors.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 25, where is the Perez's dining table from?

2. In Chapter 20, what does Elisa do that Magda insists on accompanying her for?

3. In Chapter 13, what happened to Ana's family's rum business under Castro?

4. In Chapter 14, how many other men were in the prison cell with Pablo?

5. In Chapter 13, what does Luis tell Marisol about his personal life that shocks her?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 22, what does Ana tell Marisol about her feelings on her romance with Luis?

2. In Chapter 13, what does Luis tell Marisol about his personal life that shocks her?

3. In Chapter 24, what happens to Luis and Marisol as they walk together in Vedado?

4. In Chapter 12, what does Elisa realize she must do when she goes to talk with her father about Pablo?

5. In Chapter 23, what happens to Elisa's family that has everyone very upset?

6. In Chapter 15, how and where does Marisol's relationship with Luis progress into romantic territory?

7. In Chapter 13, what does Ana tell Marisol about the beginning of Castro's regime?

8. In Chapter 14, where does Elisa go in order to see Pablo once he is released from jail?

9. In Chapter 18, how do Elisa and her family find out that Batista has made plans to leave the country?

10. In Chapter 20, what development in Havana does Elisa's mother seem truly appalled to have heard about?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 778 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample