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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Sandi think she was turning into?
2. What was Yolanda and John's relationship like in the beginning?
3. What did Rudy bring to Yolanda when they met later in life?
4. What happened when the father heard Yolanda's school speech?
5. Why is Sofia throwing the party for her father?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Mr. Garcia escape? What are the girls allowed to take with them? What will happen to the house when they are gone?
2. What did the girls' father say about having all girls? Do you think he really felt this way?
3. Why is the mother not offended by Yolanda's speech, but her father is?
4. 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?
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. How did the girls' mother view finding the marijuana? What does this symbolize for the mother?
7. When do the daughters return home? Why is it important for the daughters to return without their husbands? What does this say about their father? The girls?
8. Why did the girls' parents want them to return to the island every summer? Why did they not want them to live in the U.S. as adults?
9. How were the mother's inventions an important part of her American life? What did this say about her ambitions for herself?
10. How does Sister Zoe explain what snow is? Why is this explanation important to Yolanda?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
It seems important in the novel for the children to be educated, even if only for a few years, in America. What do you think is the opinion of U.S. colleges as compared to colleges on the island? What is an education in America going to give the children that they will not receive at home? It also seems important to travel to America for those who can afford it. Is it viewed as an important part of the childrens' education to be exposed to America?
Essay Topic 2
Compare life in the Dominican Republic and life in America for the girls. What changed when they moved to America? What was better? What was worse? How did their relationships with their cousins change? How did their parents change? Discuss daily life and school life as well as their change in social class.
Essay Topic 3
The story is filled with sexual overtones. What role does sexual independence play in the lives of the girls? How does this cause conflict with their parents and family? As adults, how do the daughters view sex?
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