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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the Garcias live when they first arrived in New York?

2. Before the Garcias went out to dinner with the Fannings, what did the mother tell the girls they were allowed to order as a drink in the restaurant?

3. What did Yolanda think snow was when she first saw it?

4. What did the grandmother supervise religiously?

5. Who scolded Carla and told her she should not be in the maid's room?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

If the key to life is happiness, who is happy at the end of the novel? Who do you think made the transition to America with the greatest ease? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Once the family moves to America, what kind of life do the parents dream of for their daughters? With that in mind, why do they want to return the girls to the island every summer to find husbands? Doesn't that line of thinking contradict why they moved to the U.S. in the first place? What do the parents really want for their daughters?

Essay Topic 3

Why do all the servants who work for the family have wild backgrounds? Why do some of the servants dabble in voodoo or magic? How does all this relate to Sandi curing one of the servant's children and the sculptor using her face as the face of the Virgin Mary? What does this say about the society at large on the island?

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