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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: In the Beginning Was the Word.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Xiomara says that she is the only member of her family without what item?
(a) A Biblical name.
(b) A Spanish name.
(c) A Dominican name.
(d) A passport.

2. What action does Xiomara say she would take if she had to ride the train home after a long day of hard work?
(a) She would dream.
(b) She would fall asleep.
(c) She would scream.
(d) She would just keep riding.

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) The Dominican Republic.
(b) To a convent.
(c) The Congo.
(d) Barbados.

4. For how many years has Mami been wanting X to take the sacrament of confirmation?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

5. For what reason had the whole neighborhood feared a certain outcome upon the announcement of Mami's pregnancy?
(a) The timing of the estimated due date.
(b) Mami's and Papi's advanced ages.
(c) Papi's advanced age.
(d) Mami's hereditary propensity for having triplets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Xiomara writes that certain boys in middle school had called her what name?

2. What English verb is associated with the Spanish word "oiste" (6)?

3. Mami says that the nuns and priests at her Catholic school had known "how to elicit true" (17) what?

4. Xiomara reports that she allows what object or objects to "talk for" (5) her?

5. What is NOT an event that causes Xiomara's family to tell her, "Pero, tu no eres facil" (9)?

(see the answer key)

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