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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Yolanda's 4th grade teacher's name?
(a) Sister Boom Boom.
(b) Sister Theresa.
(c) Sister Zoe.
(d) Sister Mary.

2. Where did the grandparents travel to often?
(a) Madrid.
(b) The Capitol.
(c) New York.
(d) Hawaii.

3. What did Mrs. Fanning do at dinner that angered her husband?
(a) She drank too much.
(b) She asked too many questions.
(c) She made over the girls too much.
(d) She ate too much.

4. When Carla was accosted on the way home from school, what kind of car was the man driving?
(a) A lime green medium-sized car.
(b) A Ford.
(c) A Volkswagen.
(d) A large black car.

5. Who taught at the Catholic school that the girls first attended in New York?
(a) One of their aunts.
(b) Their mother.
(c) The Sisters of Charity.
(d) Public school teachers.

6. Where had the girls seen dancers before like the ones at the restaurant?
(a) At an amusement park.
(b) In another Spanish restaurant.
(c) In Madrid.
(d) At the Domincan World's Fair.

7. What game did the cousins play on the patio after their morning swim?
(a) Hop Scotch.
(b) Sidewalk chalk art.
(c) Statues.
(d) Jacks.

8. At the end of the chapter, what happened when Carla put a coin in the bank?
(a) Father returned it to the store in New York.
(b) It got stuck, halfway up, halfway down.
(c) It was taken away and she never saw it again.
(d) It was given to her sister.

9. What did La Bruja do almost daily to annoy the Garcias?
(a) Yelled at the girls as they entered the building.
(b) Told their father that the girls were too loud.
(c) She sent Alfredo to complain about the noise.
(d) Accosted the girls' mother and told her to go back to where she came from.

10. How did Yolanda almost get her dad killed?
(a) She said he had connections with the CIA.
(b) She bragged at school that her father was in the CIA.
(c) She said he had a gun.
(d) She told her cousins that they were leaving for America soon.

11. The evening that the Garcias went to the restaurant to meet the Fannings, how did they get there?
(a) By subway.
(b) In a cab.
(c) By bus.
(d) Their father drove them.

12. What did Yolanda tell Mundin's mother when they were caught in the coal shed?
(a) They were spying on the dictator's grandson.
(b) They were eating guavas.
(c) They found kittens.
(d) That they were hiding from the guardia.

13. Who scolded Carla and told her she should not be in the maid's room?
(a) Mother.
(b) Chucha.
(c) Yolanda.
(d) Father.

14. What was the secret phrase that the mother sent to Don Victor to tell him that there was trouble?
(a) To go play tennis with her husband.
(b) To come pick up his tennis shoes.
(c) To go to his office.
(d) To come to the house to eat.

15. Where did the Fannings take the Garcias for dinner?
(a) To a Spanish restaurant.
(b) To a supper club.
(c) To the Crystal Palace.
(d) To a Chinese restaurant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Yolanda like her 4th grade teacher so much?

2. What did Yolanda's 4th grade teacher tell the students about what was happening in the world?

3. What did Carla think of the yearly celebration of coming to America?

4. What happened to Gladys when the parents discovered that she had something belonging to Carla?

5. Who was talking on the television in the chapter "Snow" and, in Yolanda's mind, was looking worried?

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