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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Four Girls.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lucinda look like?
(a) Like her mother.
(b) A Dominican magazine model.
(c) Like a boy.
(d) Like Yolanda.

2. What was the title of the autobiographical paper that the oldest daughter wrote?
(a) "How my Mother Hovered."
(b) "I Was There Too."
(c) "How I Hated my Mother."
(d) "My Mother, the Saint."

3. What did Sofia's father find in her room when she was young woman that caused a stir?
(a) Cigarettes.
(b) Liquor.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Love letters from her beau.

4. What do the sisters blindfold their dad with when they play a game?
(a) A handkerchief.
(b) A baby's coat.
(c) The baby's blanket.
(d) A kitchen towel.

5. At the beginning of the novel, how do the aunts and cousins view Yolanda?
(a) Like a hippie.
(b) Like a Peace Corps girl who has let herself go.
(c) Like a young Spanish princess.
(d) Like a professional woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the mother says there are now 6 girls, who is she referring to?

2. In the first chapter of the novel, what does Yolanda want to do that shocks her relatives?

3. What name do the sisters give to Otto?

4. How much does Yolanda pay her young helper in the first chapter?

5. What is the shape of the cake at the beginning of the novel?

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