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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rodrigo do the day after his mother finds his manuscript?
(a) He burns it.
(b) He takes it to a publisher.
(c) He gives it to her as a gift.
(d) He shows it to his literary friends.

2. How does Robles regard Norma?
(a) As his best friend.
(b) As an idea, an image.
(c) As an enemy.
(d) As a perfect wife.

3. When Rodrigo goes off to college, where does he finally feel like he belongs?
(a) A music group.
(b) At home.
(c) In his legal classes.
(d) A literary group.

4. What does Norma realize after a flirtation with a young poet?
(a) She has fallen in love with his poetry, not him.
(b) She is in love with him and wants to marry him.
(c) She wants to stop flirting and settle down.
(d) She does not want to be trapped in a life of poverty with him.

5. What is Norma's main fear?
(a) Robles will stop loving her.
(b) She might bear an ugly child like Robles.
(c) Robles cannot have children.
(d) She will never have children.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rodrigo Pola feel at the party?

2. Why does a workers' strike begin?

3. Who are the wealthiest feudal landowners in Mexico?

4. What does Dona Lorenza teach Benjamin?

5. What is Robles' plan before the wars begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the mother-son bond broken between Rosenda and Rodrigo?

2. How does Robles disagree with Manuel?

3. Of what does Mercedes grow daily aware? To what does this lead?

4. Upon what does Pimpenela reflect?

5. Where does Beto end up on his night out with his friends?

6. How does Zamacona begin his day?

7. What does Ixca urge the city to do?

8. What do Natasha and Rodrigo discuss?

9. How does Dona Lorenza react to what she finds in Mexico?

10. Describe Norma and Robles' relationship.

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