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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. What is distinctive about the poem entitled "A Poem Mami Will Never Read" (233)?
(a) The poem creates the shape of a question mark.
(b) The poem is half in Spanish and half in English.
(c) The poem rhymes.
(d) The entire poem is in Spanish.

2. Mami says that she had been on a journey toward what when she had instead married Papi?
(a) The convent.
(b) Nowhere.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Hell.

3. The poem entitled "Music" (141) ends with an invocation of which human sense?
(a) Sound.
(b) Smell.
(c) Sight.
(d) Touch.

4. The poem entitled "Music" (141) is dedicated to whom?
(a) A.
(b) X.
(c) C.
(d) P.

5. On Xiomara's first visit to poetry club, how many students are at the meeting, including Xiomara?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 12.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. Xiomara says that "hiding in her" (237) what is the only way she can keep from crying?

2. Xiomara says that her parents had grown up tending what animals?

3. What is the name of the young woman whom Xiomara eventually befriends in poetry club?

4. Father Sean tells Xiomara that sometimes he misses what element of his past?

5. For what transgression does Xiomara break up with Aman?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the humanist messages present within the short poem entitled "Wants" (146).

2. In what way does the theme of appearance versus reality appear within Xiomara's fight with Mami about Aman?

3. What event causes Xiomara to wonder about the qualities of silence and its possible destructive nature?

4. What is on the list of prohibited behaviors Xiomara includes in the poem entitled "What I Don't Tell Aman" (148)?

5. How is the power of communication depicted in Xiomara's rough draft of Assignment 4?

6. About what topic does Xiomara have hope, as discussed in her poem "Hope is a Thing with Wings" (263)?

7. Who is ultimately in charge of determining whether Xiomara's behavior is correct or not?

8. How does Xiomara comfort Xavier during his emotional breakdown?

9. What is the cause of the marked change in the relationship between Xiomara and Mami?

10. What event causes Xiomara to break up with Aman?

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