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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 Natasha say about the nouveau riche?
(a) They are her friends.
(b) They deserve everyone's respect.
(c) They have the right to lead the country.
(d) They have none of the taste or talent that the old aristocracy had.

2. What does Robles study as a youth for the theological schools?
(a) Italian.
(b) French.
(c) Latin.
(d) Spanish.

3. Looking back, what does Rodrigo feel about "lavender verse?"
(a) He wonders if he should have written it.
(b) He feels disdain.
(c) He wishes he had given it to his mother.
(d) He has fond memories of it.

4. How are Juan and Rosa Morales able to spend a rare night out at a cheap restaurant?
(a) They get the night off from work.
(b) They win the lottery.
(c) A wealthy man drops his wallet.
(d) They are lucky at the races.

5. With what is the narrator now dealing?
(a) Mexico's future.
(b) Mexico City.
(c) Native Mexicans.
(d) Mexico's revolutionary past.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rodrigo do the day after his mother finds his manuscript?

2. Why is the impoverished Countess at the party?

3. What is Norma's main fear?

4. What has Gabriel forgotten when giving his mother a food processor?

5. What does Gervasio tell the men it is sometimes counterproductive to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Norma realize about Ixca?

2. Describe Gervasio and his companions' plans.

3. How does Zamacona begin his day?

4. How does Rodrigo describe his relationship with Pimpenela?

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

6. What does Ixca urge the city to do?

7. How does Ixca describe Mexico?

8. What is wrong with Gabriel's gift to his mother?

9. About what does Robles think while Ixca and Manuel are speaking?

10. What does Norma do after her brush with death?

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