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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. What was Yolanda and John's relationship like in the beginning?
(a) They were friends.
(b) He was her teacher.
(c) They were in love.
(d) They were cousins.

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

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

4. Where did Lucinda and Mundin take the sisters to show them a good time?
(a) To a cantina.
(b) To a dance hall.
(c) To an arcade.
(d) To Motel Los Encantos, a whore house.

5. What was the assignment that Rudy and Yolanda worked on together?
(a) To write a book.
(b) To write a speech.
(c) To write a sonnet.
(d) To write an essay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the girls' father give to the girls when they return home?

2. What does the cantina owner offer Yolanda to drink?

3. What does Lucinda look like?

4. What nicknames does the grandfather give to the baby?

5. What cured Yolanda?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Carla view the celebration dinner for the family's first American year? Why do the parents view it differently from the kids? What is this telling the reader?

2. What is Rudy trying to teach Yolanda with his sonnets? Why does he choose this approach?

3. Why were the girls not supportive of their mother's inventions? Why did they not take them seriously?

4. What happens to Carla when she enters the new school? Why is she not accepted? Why does she not complain?

5. 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?

6. What is significant about the rift between Sofia and her father? What does this say about his attitudes in their new country?

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

8. What is the significance of the electric typewriter? What does it mean to Yolanda? To her mother? To her father?

9. Why is Carla embarrassed to tell the police officers what happened to her on her walk home from school?

10. Why did Carla want red sneakers? Why was the color so important?

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