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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 the girl do with her diary at the end of "Absolution in the New Year"?
(a) Starts to write lies in it.
(b) Tears up the pages.
(c) Burns it.
(d) Hides it.

2. How does the girl feel about living in the city?
(a) She loves it.
(b) She makes fun of it.
(c) She hates it.
(d) She doesn't really care.

3. After leaving the shop in "An Early Mystery", what does the girl think about the woman?
(a) The girl hates the woman.
(b) The girl feels the woman is still there.
(c) The girl tries to see the woman again.
(d) The girl can't remember the woman at all.

4. Where does the narrator live?
(a) Florida.
(b) New York.
(c) California.
(d) New Jersey.

5. How is Fidel Castro described in "A Legion of Dark Angels"?
(a) Short.
(b) Well-dressed.
(c) Soft-spoken.
(d) Bearded.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the girl treat her father in "Dividir: To Divide"?

2. What color is the fruit in "From the Book of Dreams in Spanish"?

3. Where did "they" come from in "A Legion of Dark Angels"?

4. Who is Manny?

5. What type of fruit tree is in "From the Book of Dreams in Spanish"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the girl's grandmother live in New York for a year?

2. How do the husband and wife mark time in "Anniversary"?

3. What surprises the mother in "The Game"?

4. In "Vida", what happens between the narrator and Gabriel?

5. What does Paciencia do during the night in "Paciencia"?

6. What did the girl think as she watched her father read her diary in "Absolution in the New Year"?

7. What happened when the girl slept in the same bed as her mother in "Fever"?

8. What things did the girl have to do in "The Changeling" before she could eat dinner?

9. How does the library in "The Paterson Public Library" compare to the city it is in?

10. How did the girl take her anger out on her mother in "Absolution in the New Year"?

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