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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 does Lala do for money on the beach?
(a) Sell coconuts.
(b) Sell burritos.
(c) Braid tourists' hair.
(d) Sing.

2. What does Tone sell on the beach?
(a) Rides on jet skis, marijuana, and sex.
(b) Tickets to clubs.
(c) Songbooks.
(d) Coconuts.

3. What is wrong with the bathrooms in the hospital?
(a) There are no doors on the stalls.
(b) There is no running water.
(c) There is no toilet paper there.
(d) There are no toilets.

4. Who are Mira's stepchildren?
(a) Tone and Sam.
(b) Riley and Sam.
(c) Beth and Riley.
(d) Beth and Sam.

5. What does Mira do during the robbery that enrages Adan?
(a) Pulls the mask off his face.
(b) Spits at him.
(c) Stabs him.
(d) Pulls the stocking off his face.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mira repeatedly buy at the convenience store?

2. How does Wilma describe the circumstances of her own marriage?

3. What commotion is happening on the beach when Mira is walking home in Chapter 9?

4. What is Adan doing when Lala finds him in Chapter 1?

5. What does Wilma call Lala?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mira want more than anything after she marries Peter?

2. Why does Lala have to leave the hospital with Baby alone?

3. Why does Mira repeatedly buy raisins at the store following Peter's death?

4. Why does Esme resent Wilma so much in later years?

5. Why does Wilma tell Lala the story of the one-armed sister?

6. What does Lala like to do on the beach to earn money?

7. What is Wilma's story to the police about her own marriage to Carson?

8. What problems does Sam have following Peter's death?

9. How does the hospital staff treat Lala when she has her baby there?

10. What does Mira Whalen sometimes feel she is being punished for?

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