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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. Where does Chucha get a job?
(a) She has not found one yet.
(b) With a family that was not involved in the assassination.
(c) The American embassy.
(d) Wimpy's.

2. Who almost discovers Anita and her mama?
(a) The Mancini daughters.
(b) One of the clerks at the embassy.
(c) The insurrgents.
(d) One of the locals the embassy hires.

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

4. What does Anita's father tell her he wants for his children?
(a) For them to live without fear.
(b) For them to live free.
(c) For them to become citizens of the United States.
(d) For them to feel hopeful about their future.

5. Where do the soldiers who come to the compound say they are taking the men they arrest?
(a) They refuse to say.
(b) To stand trial.
(c) To where they took El Jefe.
(d) To hand over to Trujillo, Jr.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to see Anita and Mami?

2. Why does Anita want to skip school the morning Lucinda is to leave?

3. What word do they receive on Mundin?

4. Who shoots the family dogs?

5. Who rescues Anita and her mami?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the teacher tell the students in school the day Lucinda is leaving and how does Anita react?

2. What does Anita know about a pill and what does she think about it?

3. Who are arrested in town and why?

4. How do Anita and Mami communicate with Mundo?

5. What does Anita overhear her father say about the Washburns?

6. How does Chucha help Anita and what does Chucha tell her?

7. How does Mrs. Mancini's distrust of people turn out to be fortuitous?

8. What does Anita write about their rescue from the compound?

9. What does Anita learn about Chucha?

10. What arrives for Lucinda the day after the party, and how does Lucinda feel?

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