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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lilita do that upsets Emilia?
(a) Lilita quits her job.
(b) Lilita tries to keep Emilia from Magda.
(c) Lilita frequently leaves the house at night.
(d) Lilita has an affair.

2. Why do Magda and Emilia hide in Gabriela's wagon?
(a) They want to play a prank on their parents.
(b) They want to know where she lives.
(c) They want to take back what their mothers had given Gabriela.
(d) They want to run away from their homes.

3. Why does Gabriela make daily rounds through the village?
(a) She is a nurse.
(b) She is begging for food or clothing.
(c) She is delivering mended garments.
(d) She delivers food.

4. What happens during the speech?
(a) Emilia is hurt.
(b) Someone is shot.
(c) Marco is mugged.
(d) Che is arrested.

5. How are the women supposed to view being yelled at by the men?
(a) The women are supposed to be complimented.
(b) The women are supposed to ignore them.
(c) The women are supposed to get angry.
(d) The women are supposed to yell back.

6. On which boy does Magda develop a crush?
(a) Marco.
(b) Orsino.
(c) Bassiano.
(d) Felix.

7. What are Magda and Emilia known for in their neighborhood?
(a) Singing.
(b) Pranks.
(c) Wrestling.
(d) Dancing.

8. What sort of tree is in front of Cora's house?
(a) A poinsettia tree.
(b) A dogwood.
(c) A cactus.
(d) A tipa tree.

9. Why is Senora Francisca not friendly with the other women?
(a) She is very reclusive.
(b) The other women find her to be haughty.
(c) She is not very wealthy.
(d) She is very ill.

10. Who lives across the street from Cora?
(a) Lilita's family.
(b) Magda's family.
(c) Josefa's family.
(d) Senor Ruben and his family.

11. When she discovers Magda and Emilia in her wagon, what does Gabriela fear?
(a) She is afraid that the girls are not safe.
(b) She is afraid that the soldiers will think she kidnapped the girls.
(c) She is afraid that the girls are there to mock her.
(d) She is afraid because she does not have any food to feed them.

12. Why is Cora able to invite Magda and Emilia over to her house?
(a) Her mother is gone.
(b) Her father allows her to have friends over.
(c) Her maid is too drunk to realize that Cora is not allowed to have friends.
(d) Her mother has relaxed the rules.

13. Who invites Magda, Cora and Emilia over to watch a movie?
(a) Josefa.
(b) Christina.
(c) Gabriela.
(d) Lilita.

14. What historical event happens two months prior to the Uruguayan students' arrival?
(a) The assassination of John Lennon.
(b) The assassination of John Kennedy.
(c) The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
(d) The assassination of Bobby Kennedy.

15. What is Josefa's relationship to Magda?
(a) She is the girl's aunt.
(b) She is the girl's neighbor.
(c) She is the girl's nurse.
(d) She is the girl's maid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emilia promise her mother?

2. What is Emilia's response to Magda's idea in Chapter 5?

3. What does Magda notice at the end of Chapter 3?

4. How is the woman who comes to the barrio dressed?

5. What do Magda and Janet not agree upon?

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