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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 is Mexico City?
(a) A strange and ugly city.
(b) Just like any other city in Mexico.
(c) A disgraceful place.
(d) A noble land unlike any other.

2. What does Ibarra claim about both he and Robles?
(a) They were always better than everyone else.
(b) They have always been best friends.
(c) They had the same paths open to them after the revolution.
(d) They followed the same paths after the revolution.

3. Why do the other men resist?
(a) They want to remain together, even unto death.
(b) They want to go on their own.
(c) They want to fight the enemy now.
(d) They want to go in two groups.

4. What difficulty does Rodrigo have growing up?
(a) His mother is unkind.
(b) He has a learning disability.
(c) Without a father.
(d) He is poor.

5. Why do Prince Vampa, Charlotte Garcia, and Natasha hold the rest of the crowd in disdain?
(a) They are rude and belligerent.
(b) They consider themselves the only true heirs of Mexico's noble traditions.
(c) They are wealthier than anyone else at the party.
(d) They are kind and loving, ot which the others cannot make sense.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is ruthlessly pushing his business interests forward by refusing to hear the case of an injured worker?

2. What does Norma say about literature?

3. What does Norma know, even as a teenager?

4. What does Robles study as a youth for the theological schools?

5. Why does she buy a cigarette holder?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Mercedes and Robles?

2. Why does Natasha give Rodrigo advice? What advice does she give him?

3. What do Bobo's guests do after the party?

4. What does Rodrigo's mother say about his father in a moment of weakness?

5. How does Norma respond to Rodrigo's adoration?

6. Describe Norma and Robles' relationship.

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

8. Describe Teodula.

9. How does Zamacona begin his day?

10. How does Rodrigo spend his time as a young student?

(see the answer keys)

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