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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 high school did Hudes attend?
(a) Roosevelt High.
(b) Hubert High.
(c) Central High.
(d) Migra High.

2. What does Sharon once tell Hudes she does not want to hear about at all?
(a) Hudes's work.
(b) Hudes's mother or Gabi.
(c) Hudes's preferences for food.
(d) Hudes's accomplisments.

3. What does Hudes copy for Wynton Marsalis at one point?
(a) Vocal charts.
(b) Yard signs.
(c) Diary pages.
(d) Demo tapes.

4. How does Hudes usually get to visit her father and Sharon?
(a) By train.
(b) By ferry.
(c) On foot.
(d) By car.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is important about a cooking pot, according to Hudes's mother?

2. What does Virginia often begin doing in Chapter 18 for Hudes?

3. How many people are allowed in Yale seminars?

4. Who reappears Thanksgiving of Hudes's senior year of college?

5. What is Abuela suspicious of regarding Hudes in Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 16, what happens to Hudes's high school AIDS quilt after her class leaves?

2. In Chapter 21, what does Hudes once do with her mother's language that she now regrets?

3. In Chapter 16, what happens to Vivi?

4. How are gay people viewed and treated in the barrio?

5. Why do Abuela and her husband split up?

6. In Chapter 18, what big change happens in Hudes's family?

7. In Chapter 27, why does Hudes think of Nuchi so often?

8. Why does Abuela move her family from New York to Philadelphia?

9. In Chapter 19, what do some of Hudes's classmates think of the book The Bell Curve?

10. In Chapter 18, what happens during an English class essay Hudes writes?

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