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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 is Hudes's mother disturbed that an actor on stage in her play is doing?
(a) Singing a sacred song.
(b) Getting naked.
(c) Killing a snake.
(d) The coconut divination.

2. What is a staple of Abuela's cooking?
(a) Cilantro.
(b) Beef.
(c) Rice.
(d) Lamb.

3. What is the only language Hudes chooses in Chapter 22?
(a) Sign language.
(b) Spanish.
(c) English.
(d) Music.

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

5. In Chapter 19, what influential book is published in Hudes's senior year of high school?
(a) The Flingington.
(b) The Bell Curve.
(c) Superpredator.
(d) The Whipsaw.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Hudes send in to Yale with her application?

4. Who is one of the first fiction writers Hudes reads in her senior year English class?

5. How many people are allowed in Yale seminars?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Titi Ginny never have her chance to compete as an athelete?

3. In Chapter 16, what happens to Vivi?

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

5. In Chapter 23, how does Hudes feel about going to Yale?

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

7. In Chapter 17, why does Hudes ask Abuela for cooking lessons?

8. In Chapter 24, what does Hudes think of her first music classes at Yale?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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