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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the hidden agenda behind the four girls spending summers in the Dominican Republic?
(a) To marry Dominican boys.
(b) To learn to do hair and makeup.
(c) To learn to dress better.
(d) To know Dominican ways for women.

2. What is Manual Gustavo's biggest flaw?
(a) He does not speak good English.
(b) He does not smell good.
(c) He can't drive very well at night.
(d) He is a mini tyrant.

3. What does Yolanda want to find and eat on the island in the first chapter?
(a) Guavas.
(b) Avocados.
(c) A hot dog.
(d) Pineapples.

4. On the island, what was different about the patio where men and women sit and talk?
(a) The patio was segregated, men on one side, women on the other.
(b) The patio needed painting.
(c) The patio had uncomfortable furniture.
(d) The patio had a mosquito net.

5. When the mother was confronted by a salesclerk in a store, how did she put them off?
(a) She did not put them off, but bought everything in sight.
(b) She told them she had no money.
(c) She told them she cannot speak English.
(d) She told them she would have to talk purchases over with her husband.

6. What happened to the speech that Yolanda wrote for school?
(a) Her mother saved it in her personal trunk.
(b) Yolanda tore it into pieces.
(c) Her father tore it into pieces.
(d) Her father framed it and put it up on the wall.

7. Why was Yolanda so pleased with the speech she wrote for school?
(a) She felt she was a rebel.
(b) She finally sounded like herself in English.
(c) Because her father liked it.
(d) She wrote the speech in Spanish.

8. Who found the stash of marijuana?
(a) The girls' father.
(b) The Cuban super.
(c) The maid Primitiva.
(d) The girls' mother.

9. What did John always do with his clothes?
(a) Washed them in the bathtub.
(b) Folded them neatly.
(c) Washed them in the sink.
(d) Placed them over the chair.

10. What happened when the father heard Yolanda's school speech?
(a) He was angry thinking Yolanda had insulted the teachers.
(b) He took the girls out to dinner in celebration.
(c) He was thrilled with the speech.
(d) He told the mother to bake a cake.

11. Who helps Yolanda find the food she wants?
(a) Jose Duarte, Sanchez y Mella, the grandson of the woman who runs the cantina.
(b) The workmen who stop to help her.
(c) One of her cousins.
(d) Her uncle.

12. Who appeared at all of Yolanda's poetry readings?
(a) Her sisters.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her boyfriend.
(d) Her mother.

13. How many years pass when Yolanda and Rudy meet later in life?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 25 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 5 years.

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

15. How did the mother dress her daughters when they were small?
(a) All alike but in different colors.
(b) Differently to tell them apart.
(c) In the same color dresses.
(d) Like boys.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the American school, who was the Hoover girl?

2. What is Yolanda's name in Spanish?

3. What was Yolanda and John's relationship like in the beginning?

4. What does Sofia do that offends her father?

5. Who signed the papers to put Yolanda in a mental health facility?

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