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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 is Yollie especially talented at?

2. How is Manuel's performance seen by the audience?

3. Whom does Yollie live with?

4. Which of the following does NOT describe Mrs. Moreno, Yollie's mom?

5. Who distracts Manuel at the practice?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Victor want to take French?

2. Describe Yollie.

3. What is common knowledge at school and why is it important?

4. What is Manuel's financial status?

5. How does "The Marble Champ" end?

6. Describe Teresa.

7. Describe Lupe Medrano.

8. How is Manuel's act received by the audience?

9. Explain why Victor has picked grapes all summer in "Seventh Grade."

10. What is the conflict of "Mother and Daughter"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the emotions Maria experiences from her recollection of Disneyland to her family's return home from vacation. Do you think Maria's emotions are natural?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the feeling of guilt between Fausto in "The No-Guitar Blues" with Maria in "Growing Up," by looking at their adolescent perspective.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Yollie's reaction to her dress's dye running with Veronica's reaction to the loss of her Barbie doll's head. What does Soto suggest about childhood with these two devastating moments.

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