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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Still Lives.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Carla reached the 7th grade, what did the nun at school suggest about her schooling?
(a) That Carla should stay back a year and repeat grade six.
(b) That Carla go to a private school.
(c) That Carla should not go to school.
(d) That Carla skip the 7th grade.

2. Whose property was next to the de la Torre compound?
(a) The centro - downtown area.
(b) Uncle Tios compound.
(c) The Garcia's compound.
(d) The dictator's daughter and son-in-law.

3. How many years pass when Yolanda and Rudy meet later in life?
(a) 10 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 25 years.

4. What happens when the father is offended at the party?
(a) He silently gets up and leaves.
(b) He leaves immediately.
(c) He loses his temper and yells at the girls.
(d) He puts a stop to the game and the party is over.

5. Who helps Yolanda find the food she wants?
(a) One of her cousins.
(b) Jose Duarte, Sanchez y Mella, the grandson of the woman who runs the cantina.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) The workmen who stop to help her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did La Bruja do almost daily to annoy the Garcias?

2. What does Lucinda look like?

3. The evening that the Garcias went to the restaurant to meet the Fannings, how did they get there?

4. Who was talking on the television in the chapter "Snow" and, in Yolanda's mind, was looking worried?

5. When Rudy and Yolanda wrote together, what was the outcome?

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