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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 picture introduces each chapter of the book?
(a) A picture of a baby.
(b) A picture of a blindfolded woman.
(c) A picture of a plastic daisy.
(d) A picture of the Little School.

2. What is the guards' nickname for Alicia?
(a) Death.
(b) Bonita.
(c) Morena.
(d) Mama.

3. The day Alicia sleeps for eighteen hours, what trip does she miss?
(a) The trip to the lunch room.
(b) The exercise trip.
(c) The trip to the torture room.
(d) The trip to the latrine.

4. In Chapter One, when has the protagonist always thought the police would come for her?
(a) At noon.
(b) In the afternoon.
(c) In the morning.
(d) At nighttime.

5. Why is the prisoner being assigned exercise around the table?
(a) She is politically important.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) Her legs are atrophying.
(d) It is a specially designed torture.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Abuelo catches Alicia talking, what does Chiche threaten to do?

2. By the time she is offered her third shower, how long has Alicia been at the Little School?

3. Where is Benja positioned in their bunk room?

4. What does her husband do when he is tortured?

5. Why is Alicia surprised at Chiche's threat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Argentine youth suppressed after the military takes over rule of the country?

2. Why is Graciela assigned to walk around the table?

3. What does Alicia do to try and comfort Benja?

4. Before the Little School, what problems did Alicia have with her nose?

5. After waking from a nap about her daughter, what does Alicia discover about herself?

6. What is Alicia's main goal for attempting telepathy?

7. When told to slap Hugo in the face, what does Alicia do instead?

8. Why do the guards begin granting the prisoners privileges?

9. What is a military coup?

10. Why do Alicia and Vasca find the plastic daisy so ludicrous?

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