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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anita want in the event she is taken away?
(a) To be able to say goodbye.
(b) To go with Oscar.
(c) To be brave.
(d) A pill that instantly kills her.

2. What does Anita do after talking with Tio Pepe?
(a) Comes up with a schedule.
(b) Writes her papi.
(c) Starts drawing.
(d) Writes down everything she remembers about the weeks before Papi is arrested.

3. Who is at the Italian Embassy when Anita and her mother arrive there?
(a) No one they know.
(b) Sam.
(c) Mundo.
(d) Papi.

4. Who do the adults think has to be protected?
(a) Anita.
(b) Sammy.
(c) Lucinda.
(d) Oscar.

5. What do Lucinda's family members and Susie tell Lucinda?
(a) They will send her to the States.
(b) Thewill project Anita.
(c) They will protect her.
(d) El Jefe will forget her soon.

6. What does Anita's brother say when he comes home?
(a) His best friend's father has been arrested.
(b) The high school has shut down.
(c) His teacher has been arrested.
(d) He is joining the rebel forces.

7. What does the teacher tell the students at school?
(a) That El Jefe is visiting that day.
(b) That the students must wear badges with El Jefe's picture on them.
(c) That the school will not be closing as the rumors suggest.
(d) That the school is closing down temporarily.

8. How do Anita and her mother communicate with Mundo?
(a) They see him face to face every few days.
(b) Telephone.
(c) Letters.
(d) They are unable to communicate with him but very sporadically.

9. What does Anita overhear about the Washburns?
(a) They have to go back to the States.
(b) They have taken refuge in the British embassy.
(c) They are in trouble with El Jefe.
(d) They have lodged a protest.

10. What does Tio Pepe give to Anita when he visits?
(a) A photograph.
(b) A letter from her Papi.
(c) A drawing.
(d) A letter from Oscar.

11. What is revealed in Mr. Washburn's car when the accident occurs?
(a) Picnic supplies.
(b) Suitcases.
(c) A dead body.
(d) Weapons.

12. What do Lucinda and Anita do that night?
(a) Eat pastries and listen to music.
(b) Reassure each other.
(c) Talk about the future.
(d) Cry and share memories.

13. Where is Anita on Thanksgiving Day?
(a) Queens.
(b) Miami.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) On her way back to her country.

14. Where do they find El Jefe's body?
(a) In the tool box on the Ford truck.
(b) In the jungle near the compound.
(c) In the basement.
(d) In the trunk of a car.

15. What does Anita hear her father and other men discussing?
(a) Killing El Jefe.
(b) How to get both Lucinda and Anita out of the country.
(c) Beginning the revolution now.
(d) All of them leaving the country.

Short Answer Questions

1. What obstacles does she have to get past when she writes Oscar?

2. What does Anita learn when she finishes her letter to Oscar?

3. Where does Chucha get a job?

4. Upon what does Anita's mother insist?

5. Who comes to see Anita and Mami?

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