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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many different wedding guests help to narrate the chapter of the same name?

2. When Lou buys and reads Yo's book, he finds that she has plagiarized a story from whom?

3. What kind of book by Yo does Lou buy in the chapter entitled "The Student"?

4. What adjective does Lou use to describe Yo's teaching during their conference?

5. What word does Lou use to describe the end of a good book written by a skillful author?

Short Essay Questions

1. What observation of Yo's causes Tammy to burst into tears within the chapter entitled "The Best Friend"?

2. Discuss a time in the text when Tammy displays the effects of past physical abuse.

3. For how many weeks has Clair been away at the time Yo comes to live as a tenant in Marie and Clair's home?

4. Name at least three narrators of the chapter entitled "The Wedding Guests."

5. Name three different reasons Jose wants to give his next child to Yo.

6. What observation does Doug's pastor make about Yo at her wedding and why is it significant?

7. In what way does the theme of racial prejudice arise within the first conversation between Marie and Yo?

8. For what reason does Yo come to join Tammy in bed within the chapter entitled "The Best Friend"?

9. Describe Yo's status in the Dominican Republic as an adult.

10. How does Alvarez portray the theme of superstition and religious belief within the chapter entitled "The Night Watchman"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the author's messages about guilt and responsibility within Julia Alvarez's novel Yo!.

Essay Topic 2

Sensory details are used frequently by the author in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Alvarez’s purpose of creating vivid characters.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the reasons why Julia Alvarez's novel Yo! uses many different narrators to relay the events of the narrative. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what is Alvarez's intended effect on the reader?

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