Make Your Home Among Strangers: A Novel Quiz

Print

Word

PDF

Take our free Make Your Home Among Strangers quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

Directions: Click on the correct answer.

Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What effect does it have that Lizet uses the word "contaminated" (298) to refer to the link between her home and school lives? (from Chapter 29 - 30)

It demonstrates the way she is able to think analytically about her own life and the impact of change.

It tells the reader that her home life makes her feel like a germ at Rawlings College.

It shows that she has learned to use a more sophisticated level of language since coming to Rawlings.

It creates a parallel between her two worlds and the germs that potentially damage her lab research.

2.

Why does Lizet make up the story about the prostitute and the Steelers fan in the hotel room next to her? (from Chapter 3 - 4)

She is trying to focus her mother's attention on her, rather than the television.

She is a drama queen and always wants to be the center of attention.

She wanted to make her mother afraid for her safety and think she was brave for making the trip.

She knows that her mother loves a good story and will not care if it is true or not.

3.

How would Lizet feel when Ethan doesn't ask her where she is "from from" (120)? (from Chapter 13 - 14)

Relieved.

Confused.

Insulted.

She wouldn't care.

4.

What function does salad play in Lizet's conversation with Lourdes and Leidy? (from Chapter 7 - 8)

It represents a contrast between the white world of Rawlings College and the Cuban world at home.

It shows that Lizet will not eat vegetables in any form.

It represents Lizet's dislike for her mother.

It shows how Lizet's diet is improving now that she is away from home.

5.

What does it suggest when Lizet says "I was relieved, now that I was back in Miami, that there was no need to be polite" (13)? (from Chapter 3 - 4)

People in Miami are rude and Lizet is happy she can be rude too.

Lizet has noticed a difference in the way people interact in New York and she is more comfortable at home.

Lizet thinks that people in New York are too polite and that makes them fake.

People in Miami are rude and Lizet does not like rudeness.

More summaries and resources for teaching or studying Make Your Home Among Strangers: A Novel.

Browse all BookRags Study Guides.

Copyrights