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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: And the World Was Made Flesh, Pages 93-136.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Mami had become pregnant, the whole neighborhood had feared what?
(a) That the baby would turn out to be a tumor instead.
(b) That she would have triplets.
(c) That the twins would not bear a resemblance to Papi.
(d) That the twins would bear resemblance to their biological father.

2. What English verb is associated with the Spanish word "oiste" (6)?
(a) Walk.
(b) Hear.
(c) Beg.
(d) Speak.

3. If Xiomara does not take the sacrament of confirmation this year, then Mami says she will immediately have to go to what location?
(a) Barbados.
(b) The Congo.
(c) The Dominican Republic.
(d) To a convent.

4. What does Xiomara begin to do with her communion wafer after she acquiesces to Mami's demands to take communion, yet removes the wafer before getting back to her seat?
(a) Slide it between the pages of her Bible.
(b) Place it into Xavier's hand.
(c) Slide it under her pew.
(d) Slide it between the pages of the church bulletin.

5. What term does Xiomara use to describe her father in the poem entitled "I Decided a Long Time Ago" (97)?
(a) Recovering alcoholic.
(b) Converted man-whore.
(c) Converted casanova.
(d) Adulterer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What game is featured within the poem "Stoop-Sitting" (3)?

2. Xiomara states that she is "thick" (5) and that the same is true of what other item?

3. On what day of the week do poetry club meetings occur?

4. Xiomara says that what item has always taken "up more room than" (5) her voice?

5. Part II is entitled "And the Word Made" (93) what?

(see the answer key)

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