When I Was Puerto Rican Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Jibara and Fighting Naked

1. How old is the narrator when her family arrives in Macun?

2. To what does the narrator compare her family's first house?

3. How does Esmeralda burn her fingers?

4. What does Mami put on the narrator's burned fingers?

5. What color butterfly does Mami swat away from her ear?

6. What kind of music does Papi hum while he works?

7. How many eggs does the hen in the yard lay?

8. Why is Mami afraid of the dirt floor in the new house?

9. What type of bugs swarm Esmeralda when she picked up the old floor boards?

10. What does Mami's skin smell like when she picks up Esmeralda?