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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who eats a lot, like Hudes, in her family in Chapter 16?
(a) Cuca.
(b) Tico.
(c) Vivi.
(d) Nuchi.

2. What book does Virginia leave on Hudes's piano bench in Chapter 18?
(a) Wonderland.
(b) Hiruto.
(c) Two if By Birds.
(d) Four New World Yoruba Rituals.

3. Where does Hudes decide to go to college?
(a) Harvard.
(b) University of Pennsylvania.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Yale.

4. Why did Abuela move to Philadelphia?
(a) After a terrible robbery in New York.
(b) For a new romantic partner.
(c) Her mother was living there.
(d) For a new job.

5. What happens to Hudes when she starts writing her essay about an author's use of the theme of fire?
(a) She faints.
(b) She has a heart attack.
(c) She gets angry.
(d) She goes into a trance.

6. What does Hudes hate to leave behind in going to Yale?
(a) Gabi, her boyfriend, and her family.
(b) Her garden.
(c) Her best friend Jen.
(d) Her father.

7. When did Obdulia Perez first bring her daughters to the Bronx?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1970.

8. In Chapter 28, what do Hudes's Yale friends ask that makes her uncomfortable?
(a) Whether she ever wants to get married.
(b) Whether she believes in God.
(c) Whether she is straight.
(d) If she cares about money at all.

9. What is important about a cooking pot, according to Hudes's mother?
(a) How you bless it.
(b) How you cure it.
(c) How you clean it.
(d) How you place it on the heat.

10. What does Hudes tell her mother she is feeling in the end of Chapter 29?
(a) Angry.
(b) Bored.
(c) Euphoric.
(d) Depressed.

11. Who in Hudes's debate class is actually from a working-class background?
(a) Pete.
(b) Henry.
(c) Ellen.
(d) Richard.

12. Who does Hudes use as an example to refute the myth of "welfare queens"?
(a) Nuchi.
(b) Flor.
(c) Abuela.
(d) Her mother.

13. What does the record producer tell Hudes about her sound after Hudes records the demo for him?
(a) She is almost good enough, but not quite good enough, to really be successful.
(b) She is not good enough - by a long shot - to be a successful professional musician.
(c) He never gets back to her.
(d) She is going to be a star.

14. How does Vivi speak differently in Chapter 16 to what Hudes remembers?
(a) She is softer.
(b) She has a different accent.
(c) She is louder.
(d) She does not seem to know as many words as she did before.

15. Whose piano recording blows Hudes away emotionally in Chapter 24?
(a) Ellen Jameson's.
(b) Richard Hendry's.
(c) Harrison Clanson's.
(d) Elizabeth Parisot's.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people are allowed in Yale seminars?

2. What is the only language Hudes chooses in Chapter 22?

3. Who had some reproductive problems and an ectopic pregnancy?

4. What is the first play that Hudes writes?

5. Where did Abuela first settle in the U.S.?

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