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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anita learn about their new housekeeper?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She is only 17 years old.
(c) She is from the city.
(d) She is a spy.

2. What does Anita's mother want her to do with her diary?
(a) Keep it well hidden.
(b) Not write in it anymore.
(c) Give it to her to safeguard.
(d) Burn it.

3. How do the children respond to their life?
(a) They are bored.
(b) They rebel and sometimes sneak out.
(c) They cry.
(d) They accept the neccessity of it.

4. Why do they celebrate American holidays?
(a) The students closely identify with the United States.
(b) There is one American student who it.
(c) They do not celebrate American holidays.
(d) It's a school for Americans.

5. What color is associated with Chucha?
(a) Brown.
(b) Purple.
(c) Red.
(d) Yellow.

6. What does Anita ask Chucha about her cousins?
(a) If they are safe.
(b) Why they are gone.
(c) If she will ever see them again.
(d) Where they are.

7. What is one topic Anita and her mother discuss?
(a) Anita's mother's pregnancy and her upcoming new sibling.
(b) What is happening with the family.
(c) Anita going to live with her cousin's family.
(d) Anita going to live with her grandparents.

8. What does Anita's mother say Anita can do again when they are free?
(a) Go visit Carla.
(b) Go into the city.
(c) Talk with Sammy about anything.
(d) Write openly in her diary .

9. What influence does Mr. Smith have on the behavior of some of the families?
(a) They don't let their daughters out in public because of him.
(b) They help Mr. Smith smuggle rebels.
(c) They help Mr. Smith cover up evidence.
(d) They avoid Mr. Smith.

10. What does Anita not want her family to discover?
(a) That she has a pet chicken.
(b) That she often cries herself to sleep.
(c) What she writes in her journal.
(d) Her fondness for Sam.

11. What is one thing that makes Anita realize Oscar is right about their country?
(a) The way she has to erase her diary.
(b) The way her father and mother speak in low tones all the time.
(c) The way the Secret Police stand on every street corner.
(d) The way the teachers never veer from planned lessons.

12. What is one thing Anita learns about their country's leader?
(a) He is arrogant.
(b) He has no conscience.
(c) He is cruel.
(d) He is hypocritical.

13. Where does Anita's family sleep?
(a) Together in one room.
(b) In a guest cabin on the property.
(c) Out on a sleeping porch as it is very hot.
(d) In two bedrooms.

14. What topics do Sammy, Anita and Sammy's visitor discuss?
(a) Community and politics.
(b) Moving to the United States.
(c) Sports.
(d) College.

15. What is one thing Anita's mother asks Anita to do?
(a) Pack a small suitcase to be ready at a moment's notice.
(b) Not mention anything political to Sammy anymore.
(c) Keep quiet about Anita's uncle.
(d) Not hang around with Oscar anymore.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Mr. Washburn's son?

2. Where are the children allowed off the compound?

3. What makes Anita think more?

4. When was school supposed to start back up again?

5. What is Anita doing when her mother comes in to talk with her?

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