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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. For what purpose is the narrator driving downtown at the start of the Prologue?
(a) To return library books.
(b) To take her kids to school.
(c) To pick up her husband from work.
(d) To pick up groceries.
2. What type of doctor does Sarita become before setting up her own practice in Florida?
(a) An osteopath.
(b) A pediatrician.
(c) An orthopedist.
(d) A podiatrist.
3. For what reason does Yo come to see Sarita at her place of business in Florida?
(a) To ask for a loan.
(b) To express her condolences for the death of Sarita's mother.
(c) To offer Sarita a job.
(d) To interview Sarita for a book she wants to write.
4. Who comes to see the dean when Yo turns down the academic award?
(a) Yo's cousin.
(b) Yo's brother.
(c) Yo's mother.
(d) Yo's father.
5. When Yo sends Garfield works of literature, who is always the author?
(a) Hemingway.
(b) Yo.
(c) Donne.
(d) Milton.
6. In what grade is the son of the Prologue's narrator?
(a) Eleventh.
(b) Eighth.
(c) Seventh.
(d) Third.
7. During the time Sarita's mother works for the Garcias before sending for Sarita, how many times is Sarita's mother able to visit her?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 6.
8. When the narrator of the chapter entitled "The Cousin" states that the Garcia girls had always fled the Dominican Republic prior to what month, which month does she name?
(a) June.
(b) December.
(c) March.
(d) September.
9. The narrator of the chapter entitled "The Cousin" states that during her time in the Dominican Republic as a teen, she had had no shortage of what?
(a) Food.
(b) Money.
(c) Marriage proposals.
(d) Boyfriends.
10. In what type of setting does Sarita live with a family member in the Dominican Republic while her mother works for the Garcias?
(a) In the slums.
(b) In a village.
(c) On the beach.
(d) In the country.
11. The narrator of the chapter entitled "The Cousin" has what subtitle centered two lines below the chapter title?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Epistle.
(c) Revelation.
(d) Romance.
12. What season had the Garcia girls always spent in the Dominican Republic, according to the narrator of the chapter entitled "The Cousin"?
(a) Spring.
(b) Summer.
(c) Fall.
(d) Winter.
13. Two of the sisters of the Prologue's narrator have what job?
(a) Biologist.
(b) Psychologist.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Writer.
14. The poem that wins the narrator of the chapter entitled "The Cousin" top prize in the literary contest has what title?
(a) Interstellar Love Song.
(b) Concrete and Roses.
(c) Immigrant's Love Song.
(d) Indeed.
15. For how many years has Professor Garfield known Yo?
(a) 15.
(b) 9.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what New York City borough does the Garcia family live?
2. What object is part of the process discussed in the chapter called "The Mother," which the narrator says she had called "putting on the bear" (24)?
3. Garfield has vowed never to touch what object while at work?
4. What object does the narrator of the chapter entitled "The Mother" name as the impetus for her severe insomnia?
5. What last name is clearly not the surname of the narrator of the chapter entitled "The Cousin"?
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