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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 Chiquita know about men?

2. When did both sides of Inda's family properly meet?

3. What code does Inda not know?

4. What makes Inda feel ashamed?

5. What does Thaddeus think a man is meant to feel?

Short Essay Questions

1. When does Valerie light the match?

2. Why does Valerie meet with Walter?

3. What does Chiquita write on the note to her mother?

4. What happens of Daniel's appearance at Inda and Valerie's house?

5. Does Chiquita believe her story?

6. Why did Bae-Bae's neglect Chiquita?

7. What happens in the mall?

8. How does Chiquita explain the situation?

9. Who does Inda see as she drives to home?

10. Why did Chiquita stop seeing Brown?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the differences between Valerie, Inda and Chiquita. How different are their lives and what choices may have affected this? What are their strengths and weaknesses as individuals? In what way are their relationships used to develop the themes of the book?

Essay Topic 2

How does the meeting of Daniel change Valerie's life? How does her character change from this point?

Essay Topic 3

Compare Chiquita's character to the person she was at the beginning of the book to the she is at the end.

1. What did Chiquita hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes Chiquita's ideas about life?

3. How has Chiquita's character changed by the end of the book?

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