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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 Sharon tell Hudes on the day of her wedding to her father?
(a) Sharon does not even know Hudes's first name.
(b) Sharon says nothing to Hudes.
(c) She is like Sharon's own child.
(d) It is Sharon's day and she will let Hudes know if she is needed.

2. In Chapter 1, where does Hudes's family move?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Malvern.
(c) New York.
(d) Chicago.

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

4. In Chapter 5, what do Hudes and Simon count together?
(a) Moles.
(b) Bee stings.
(c) Songs.
(d) Farms.

5. In Chapter 9, which "birthday girl" goes missing?
(a) Nuchi.
(b) Cuca.
(c) Ginny.
(d) Flor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Virginia think Big Vic might have contracted HIV?

2. How does the animal in the tub torture Hudes?

3. Who is Mary Lou's daughter?

4. Who is Sedo?

5. What does Virginia Sanchez do for a living before Hudes is born?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 6, what does Sharon tell Hudes on the day of the wedding?

2. How do strangers often react when they see Hudes and her mother together?

3. In Chapter 2, what kind of garden does Hudes's mother plant?

4. In Chapter 6, what does Hudes's father ask her that she knows he is not really serious about?

5. In Chapter 6, how does Hudes spend her father's wedding?

6. In Chapter 3, what does Hudes's father say when she asks him if God is real?

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

8. Why do Hudes's parents split up?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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