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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the other students at the American school think of the background of the sisters?
(a) They thought they were stupid.
(b) They thought they were cool.
(c) They thought their skin was too dark.
(d) They thought they were related to a dictator.

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

3. What year did Yolanda meet Rudy?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1967.

4. Where were the girls when the marijuana was found?
(a) Away at school.
(b) In their room.
(c) On the island.
(d) Travelling abroad.

5. How did Yolanda tell John she was leaving him?
(a) She wrote a note.
(b) She called him on the phone.
(c) She told him to his face.
(d) She wrote a sonnet.

6. How did Yolanda meet Rudy Elmenhurst?
(a) At a frat party.
(b) In a college English class.
(c) At lunch.
(d) He came to her door one night.

7. How much does Yolanda pay her young helper in the first chapter?
(a) 6 dollars.
(b) 50 cents.
(c) More than a dollar.
(d) 10 dollars.

8. What did the girls take turns being?
(a) The prettiest.
(b) The wildest.
(c) Daddy's favorite.
(d) The troublemaker.

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

10. What does the girls' father give to the girls when they return home?
(a) Money.
(b) Presents from the island.
(c) Praise.
(d) Kisses.

11. What hangs from the belts of the two men who help Yolanda when her car breaks down?
(a) Machetes.
(b) Guns.
(c) Weed eaters.
(d) Gloves.

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

13. What did Rudy do the first night he met Yolanda?
(a) Asked her to a movie.
(b) Asked her for a kiss.
(c) Came to her dorm room.
(d) Asked her to dinner.

14. Who was the father's favorite artist to see when he went to the museum?
(a) Monet.
(b) Rembrandt.
(c) Goya.
(d) El Greco.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which sister is considered the "plain one?"

3. What village does Yolanda find herself in in the opening chapter of the book?

4. What happens to Sofia's father as the evening wears on at the party?

5. Who helps Yolanda find the food she wants?

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