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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a sign that the angel is coming?
(a) The air gets cold.
(b) The air is suddenly thick.
(c) There is a bright light.
(d) Baby starts to cry.

2. As the angel looks at her watch in the beginning of the story, about what does she think?
(a) Ways that time can be constructed.
(b) She needs a new watch.
(c) How late she is running.
(d) What time she should meet the siblings.

3. Where does Rafa consider squirting hot sauce?
(a) At Rufina.
(b) At Baby.
(c) In his mouth.
(d) Up his nose.

4. Where does Rafa hide to mourn his mother?
(a) Under the mulberry tree.
(b) In his mother’s tomb.
(c) Under her bed.
(d) In his room.

5. When the Explorer found out Rosalinda and her children had walked to town, what did he offer?
(a) Hire them an uber.
(b) To drive them home.
(c) Call them a cab.
(d) To walk them home.

6. How does the narrator account for the different personalities and take on life of Rufina and Rafa?
(a) They have different fathers.
(b) They were born in different seasons.
(c) They were raised differently.
(d) They had different schooling.

7. How long ago did Rufina and Rafa's mother die?
(a) 4 days.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 4 months.
(d) 4 hours.

8. What is clear about the angel?
(a) She is much taller than most women.
(b) She does not have wings.
(c) She is stunning.
(d) She is one of the local performers.

9. How many months apart are the siblings?
(a) 20 months.
(b) 24 months.
(c) 10 months.
(d) 12 months.

10. How does "Friday," Chapter One, begin?
(a) The sister, Rufina, sings a melancholy song about a lost baby.
(b) The Explorer has just arrived in the plaza.
(c) Rafa is reading the tourists’ shadows.
(d) Rosalinda is running for her life.

11. Who is sitting on the couch listening to the confrontation between mother and daughter on Friday?
(a) Officer Armijo.
(b) The Original Enduring Ones.
(c) The Grandmothers to All.
(d) The angel.

12. Rufina wants her brother gone and to spend her days doing what?
(a) Performing in the plaza.
(b) Reading quietly alone.
(c) Ignoring her dead mother.
(d) Nursing her dead baby.

13. Rufina goes to her room and picks up what two objects?
(a) Pennies.
(b) Shells.
(c) Combs.
(d) Flowers.

14. In "Friday," Chapter Five, the narrator flashes back to when?
(a) Rufina and Rafa were little children.
(b) Rufina and Rafa in high school with Lucio.
(c) The time right before Rufina coaxed her brother out from under the bed.
(d) The first time the family met the angel.

15. What happens on Friday when the male tourist, fully entranced by Rufina, attempts to dance with her?
(a) He knocks over their equipment.
(b) He falls and bruises his knees.
(c) He begins to sing and spin her around.
(d) He knocks over Rufina and injures her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is necessary with the presence of the dead among the living?

2. What is the angel doing as she leans against a tree outside in "Friday," Chapter Nine?

3. The narrator says, if we are quiet, we do what?

4. Officer Armijo steps in during the commotion on the plaza on Friday and and asks for what from the duo?

5. Officer Armijo starts his car and knows that when he is having dinner with his wife and four sons that evening, his mind will be on what?

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