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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is she to tell the students about her absence?
(a) She had the flu.
(b) She sprained her ankle.
(c) Her grandmother was ill and needed help.
(d) She had the chickenpox.

2. Where are the children allowed off the compound?
(a) School.
(b) School and church.
(c) No where.
(d) Anywhere as long as they walk in pairs.

3. What is Chucha's opinion about these men?
(a) They are officious.
(b) They are ruthless.
(c) They are the secret police.
(d) They are hungry.

4. What happens when Anita asks adults about her country's leader?
(a) They brush aside her questions.
(b) They explain that he is a dictator.
(c) They say that he has always won re-election because he is so popular.
(d) They tell her she must not ask such questions.

5. Why do the teacher and the two visitors step into the hallway?
(a) The classroom is very noisy.
(b) So the students can go on with their classwork.
(c) So the teacher can show the new boy his correct classroom.
(d) To talk in privacy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Tio Tony?

2. What influence does Mr. Smith have on the behavior of some of the families?

3. What time of year is it when the novel opens?

4. Why is school not opening on time?

5. What does Anita hear her father talk about on the phone that she finds confusing?

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