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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. In "An Early Mystery", what does the woman ask the girl?
(a) If she remembers the woman.
(b) If she loves her mother.
(c) If she is lost.
(d) If she is her father's daughter.

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

3. What color is the fruit in "From the Book of Dreams in Spanish"?
(a) Brown.
(b) Green.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Red.

4. What did the father do when the girl wanted to go into the sugarcane field?
(a) Breaking the sugarcane.
(b) Hitting the girl with sugarcane.
(c) Telling her sugarcane is poison.
(d) Leading her away from the sugarcane.

5. Where did the girl's father work at night?
(a) A night club.
(b) A department store.
(c) A hotel.
(d) A cemetery.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the girl's father respond to the salesman in "Not For Sale"?

2. Why did the girl dress up in "The Changeling"?

3. In "Absolution in the New Year", what does the girl's father feel the girl is becoming?

4. In "From the Book of Dreams in Spanish", the girl eats all the fruit before it ends up where?

5. In "The Lesson of the Sugarcane", what does the girl's mother want her to smell?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "The Medium's Burden", why does the medium stay silent?

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

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

4. In "Unspoken", what does the mother want to tell her daughter?

5. In "The Story of My Body", how does the girl re-tell her infancy?

6. What happens at Dona Ernestina's party?

7. In "Lydia", what does the woman say she remembers most about her friend Lydia?

8. What things startle the girl when she goes to a party in "Twist and Shout"?

9. How did biology class conflict with the woman's beliefs in "Advanced Biology"?

10. How did the girl's father react to her game of dress-up in "The Changeling"?

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