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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. What does Antonia tell Dr. Kane to do?

2. Who is Dorothy?

3. What favor does Izzy ask of Antonia via a voicemail?

4. in what tense is the beginning of Chapter 10 narrated?

5. What does the pyschiatrist tell Izzy to call her?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Izzy die?

2. Who is Beth Trotter?

3. What inside information does Sheriff Boyer give Antonia?

4. Who is Ralph?

5. Why does Antonia ask Beth Trotter to let Estela stay with her?

6. Who does Estela move in with?

7. Why is Roger upset when Antonia gives him inside information?

8. What does Estela name her baby?

9. What favor does Antonia ask of Roger after she talks to Sheriff Boyer?

10. Who calls Antonia in the middle of her conversation with Dot?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you examine the various settings of the novel. In what places does the plot take place, and what significance does each place hold, either thematically or narratively? Use examples from the text to support your ideas.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you examine Antonia's role within the migrant, largely Hispanic, community in her small town. What role does she play in protecting community measures, and to what lengths does she go to ensure that they can survive? Use examples from the text to support your ideas.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you examine Antonia's relationship to and understanding of her sister, Izzy. What does she think about Izzy, and why is she concerned about her older sister up until her death? What is the nature of their relationship as the two oldest? Use examples from the text to support your ideas.

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