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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Anita see when she looks out the the bathroom window one day?
(a) Mundo.
(b) Oscar.
(c) Papi.
(d) Sam.

2. What does Anita use to communicate with Oscar?
(a) Writing in the fog on the bathroom window.
(b) A book she is given.
(c) Slips of paper in the laundry.
(d) Morse code.

3. What does Anita do after the teacher makes her announcement?
(a) Protests.
(b) Screams.
(c) Puts her head on her desk.
(d) Cries.

4. What does Anita do after talking with Tio Pepe?
(a) Writes down everything she remembers about the weeks before Papi is arrested.
(b) Comes up with a schedule.
(c) Writes her papi.
(d) Starts drawing.

5. How do Anita and her mother communicate with Mundo?
(a) Telephone.
(b) They are unable to communicate with him but very sporadically.
(c) Letters.
(d) They see him face to face every few days.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anita overhear about the Washburns?

2. For what does Anita check her uncle and father's pockets?

3. How does Anita feel every time she starts to write Oscar?

4. What does Anita realize the next morning?

5. What does Anita learn when she finishes her letter to Oscar?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the children do after the American school is closed and how do they get to school?

2. What does Anita overhear her father and other men talking about concerning Trujillo, and what does Anita's mother say to the men?

3. What does Anita write about their rescue from the compound?

4. What does Anita discover when she goes into Lucinda's room, and what is Anita's reaction?

5. What do Anita's diary entries for June 3, and June 5, 1961, say?

6. How does Mrs. Mancini's distrust of people turn out to be fortuitous?

7. What does Anita know about a pill and what does she think about it?

8. What does Papi say he wants for his children?

9. Where do soldiers find El Jefe's body and who do they arrest and what do they say about Papi and Tio Toni?

10. What does Anita learn about Chucha?

(see the answer keys)

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