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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. In what ways does Isabel remind Jeanette of her mother?
(a) She looks both naive and confident.
(b) She looks both rigid and calm.
(c) She looks both immaculate and breakable.
(d) She looks both ritzy and haggard.

2. Who believes "the past only haunts you if you let it" (105)?
(a) Mario.
(b) Jeanette.
(c) Vanessa.
(d) Carmen.

3. What does Jeanette begin to notice about Isabel when she visits the beauty counter?
(a) She has a black eye.
(b) She has a limp.
(c) Her lips quiver.
(d) Her hands shake.

4. What does Vanessa say she learned about their great-grandmother Cecelia in Chapter 6?
(a) She worked in a sugarcane field.
(b) She was a famous dancer.
(c) She worked in a cigar factory.
(d) She was the first of their family to come to the U.S.

5. From whose perspective is Chapter 10, "The Bombs Would Rain," told?
(a) Elena.
(b) Daniel.
(c) Carmen.
(d) Dolores.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose men does Dolores fear will come to her home at night and make her dig her own grave?

2. What does Mario steal from his job?

3. Why do they have to walk ten minutes to find a phone after the car breaks down?

4. What word is used to describe the way Carmen feels when she thinks of her late husband?

5. What is Maydelis's husband's occupation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Carmen want Jeanette to visit home so badly in Chapter 11? What does Jeanette say to Carmen about her relationship with Julio? How does Carmen respond?

2. In what ways was life different for Gloria after moving to Mexico?

3. How did Nancy treat Ana and Gloria when they first started working for her?

4. Describe Isabel's husband in Chapter 11?

5. Who is Mario? How is Carmen feeling about having him over for Thanksgiving?

6. Why did Ana realize later that she could have gotten away with taking the money Nancy hid in the floorboard to pay for treatment?

7. When did Nancy give Gloria a raise in Chapter 7?

8. What did Jeanette learn from Carmen about why Cubans might hide their possessions within their walls?

9. Why does Maydelis spend time with El Aleman at the start of Chapter 8? What does she hope might come of their relationship?

10. Why did Dolores hide money in the mattress and hide her Les Miserables book in the walls in Chapter 10?

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