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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Sandra end up in a mental institution?
(a) She got really fat.
(b) She tried to starve herself to death.
(c) She wrote a disturbing letter home.
(d) She called her mother and she couldn't stop crying.

2. What did the mother always call the girls?
(a) By the color of their dresses.
(b) By their names.
(c) The four girls.
(d) Her babies.

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

4. What is Yolanda's name in Spanish?
(a) Josie.
(b) John.
(c) Yazi.
(d) Yo.

5. What does the father finally end up doing in New York that gives him professional success?
(a) He returns to school and becomes a banker.
(b) He is a doctor at Centro de Medicina in the Bronx.
(c) He becomes a college professor.
(d) He works in a clinic downtown.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the father's favorite artist to see when he went to the museum?

2. Which sister has a baby?

3. Who appeared at all of Yolanda's poetry readings?

4. What is Manual Gustavo's biggest flaw?

5. Who was Yolanda's psychiatrist?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sofia give her father the wet kiss in his ear? What is she trying to prove to her father? Why does this anger her father?

2. What is the symbolism of the Human Body? When it is broken and ruined what is the author trying to say to us?

3. Why is Sofia's father taken with her son, but not her daughter? Why does this anger Sofia?

4. What is important about the dinner with the Fannings? Why is it so important to the girls' parents?

5. When Mrs. Garcia makes a plate of food for the men in her house, what does she do to assure them that the food is okay?

6. What does Yolanda think when she sees the snow falling? Where does she get this idea?

7. How does Carla react when she is asked by her father to keep a secret about how Mrs. Fanning kissed him?

8. What does it tell the reader to know that the de la Torres compound is next to the palacio of the dictator's daughter? Does this mean that grandfather is an important man? Why? Why not?

9. Why does the father say they fired Gladys? Why is trust so important to this family? How much to they rely on the servants for help?

10. Where have the uncles gone who do not appear anymore at family holidays? Are they dead? Are they in prison? Where do you think they are?

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