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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 Virginia bring to the kindergarten class three weeks into school?
(a) Cake.
(b) Burgers.
(c) A snake.
(d) A parade float.

2. What artist does Hudes particularly want to see works of in Puerto Rico?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Hubi.
(c) Duchamps.
(d) Van Gogh.

3. Which animal does Hudes try to free?
(a) The chicken.
(b) The turtle.
(c) The deer.
(d) The goat.

4. What happens to Hudes for the first time in Chapter 8?
(a) She reads a book in Spanish.
(b) She meets her father's new baby.
(c) She gets her period.
(d) She has sex.

5. What is Linda Loman's warning that Hudes thinks of in relation to her family members' deaths?
(a) Find me wherever you can.
(b) No one knows when the darkness is coming.
(c) Your health is your wealth.
(d) Attention must be paid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who begins to teach Hudes how to play piano?

2. Who helps Hudes with a milestone in Chapter 8?

3. What does Sharon tell Hudes on the day of her wedding to her father?

4. In Chapter 5, who is Hudes's English cousin who comes to visit?

5. Why does Virginia say the family is moving in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 13, what does Sedo buy for Hudes and how does it affect her?

2. In Chapter 12, what work does Hudes's mother do professionally?

3. How does Hudes eventually come to feel about Sedo?

4. How do the children treat Hudes in kindergarten in Malvern?

5. In Chapter 13, how do Sedo's children treat Virginia?

6. In Chapter 10, what disease affects many of Hudes's family members that her family does not want to discuss?

7. What are Hudes's memories of Mary Lou?

8. When did Virginia, Hudes's mother, have strange nightmares as a child?

9. What happens to Mary Lou in Chapter 10?

10. What does Hudes's father sometimes do for a living?

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