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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What cigarettes does Hudes's father mostly smoke?

3. What does Virginia say the turtle's name is?

4. What kind of cousin does Hudes identify herself as, due to age differences?

5. In Chapter 5, what calamity happens to Hudes?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 9, why is Flor absent from the celebration?

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

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

4. What does Hudes's mother Virginia tell her happened to her own father's family?

5. In Chapter 14, what does Hudes learn in Puerto Rico?

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

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

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

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

10. What happens when Hudes gets her first period?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of Hudes's family's experiences with poverty? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Why does Hudes decide to pursue a career in writing rather than music? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Hudes's conversation with Sharon and her father about welfare and taxes leave such a bad and lasting impression on her? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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