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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Carla and her siblings sent to do?
(a) Have a medical exam.
(b) Get their paperwork.
(c) Get shots.
(d) Change their clothes.

2. Who is Mr. Washburn?
(a) A man from the British consulate.
(b) A CIA agent.
(c) A U.S. military officer.
(d) A man from the American embassy.

3. What does Papi tell the family to pretend?
(a) That they are not being watched.
(b) That the men who are watcing them are harmless.
(c) That they have no idea where their cousins are.
(d) That the the family is being watched for their well being.

4. What does Lucinda say the men know about their cousins?
(a) That the cousins have been arrested.
(b) Where the cousins are.
(c) Nothing.
(d) That they are out of this country, but not yet at their destination.

5. How do the men search under the beds?
(a) With their bayonets.
(b) Very carefully, pulling everythng out.
(c) By firing shots that lodge in the opposite wall.
(d) With Infrared lights.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Chucha's opinion about these men?

2. Why do the teacher and the two visitors step into the hallway?

3. What is she to tell the students about her absence?

4. What time of year is it when the novel opens?

5. Why do they celebrate American holidays?

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