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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Rita do for her 49th birthday?
(a) She invites Maria and her family over for a grand birthday party with cake and candles and ice cream.
(b) She invites Maria and her family over for a party, but keeps her birthday a secret.
(c) She goes shopping.
(d) She calls her family in the US.
2. The school makes arrangements for Rita to stay where?
(a) She stays in a dorm.
(b) She stays in a bed and breakfast.
(c) She stays with an elderly couple.
(d) She stays with a young couple and their baby.
3. How do women react when Rita talks about her travels?
(a) They think she is crazy.
(b) They are interested and inspired that she does it without a man.
(c) They are politely curious.
(d) They don't want to talk about it.
4. What does Rita observe about the female frigatebirds?
(a) They are never satisfied as far as she can see.
(b) They are awkward and clumsy.
(c) They have beautiful voices.
(d) They are beautiful.
5. What is the last great task Rita accomplishes before leaving the village?
(a) She swims across the river.
(b) She makes a meal for her host family.
(c) She creates a beautiful necklace.
(d) She climbs the mountain.
6. What does Rita brush up on before leaving for Indonesia?
(a) The customs and behaviors.
(b) Her American manners.
(c) Her knowledge of their government.
(d) Language.
7. Rita loses her position because the boss thinks what?
(a) There are too many gringos involved in the project.
(b) She is lazy.
(c) She is over-qualified.
(d) Her ideas are too off the mark.
8. When the plane lands on a different island than the one where Rita thinks she is staying, how does she react?
(a) She is very nervous, but doesn't know what to say.
(b) She is angry.
(c) She decides to trust and enjoy the adventure.
(d) She panicks and demands to go back.
9. What does Rita feel as if she stepped into when she visits the Druse?
(a) Another world.
(b) A pit of snakes.
(c) A lion's den.
(d) The future.
10. About what has Rita always dreamed?
(a) Staying home with her husband and children.
(b) Having a luxurious lifestyle.
(c) Having enough wealth to share with others.
(d) Owning nothing but the stuff she could carry on her back.
11. Why do they leave the restaurant?
(a) Rita is feeling ill.
(b) They have a meeting to attend.
(c) The food is terrible.
(d) They don't trust the men who are striking up a conversation with them.
12. What bothers Rita when her wallet is stolen?
(a) She needs to call her husband and report the stolen credit cards.
(b) She loses the pictures of her children.
(c) She has no passport.
(d) She has no money.
13. When does Rita feel very connected with the women in the village?
(a) When they dance together.
(b) When they are out getting firewood together.
(c) When they are working in the fields together.
(d) When they are cooking together.
14. How many days pass before the women in the village (aside from Margarita) begin to talk with Rita?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Seven.
15. When Rita goes to the Galapagos, how many years is it since she has been in Mexico City?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Seven.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Rita inadvertently do to her landlady?
2. Who does Rita imagine she sees when looking out over the plaza toward the Temple of the Inscriptions?
3. Of what is the author afraid at the beginning of Chapter 2?
4. What do Rita and her husband decide to do?
5. What does Rita say her profession is?
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