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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Anita inclined to say about Oscar's comments about the country?
(a) That its history is shrouded in lies.
(b) That they are free.
(c) That she feels she is getting a good education.
(d) That everyone cannot be rich.

2. What does Anita ask Chucha about her cousins?
(a) If they are safe.
(b) Why they are gone.
(c) Where they are.
(d) If she will ever see them again.

3. What does Mami tell Anita and Carla to make them feel better?
(a) They will be back together soon.
(b) She tells them nothing, as she does not want to give them false hope.
(c) Carla can come back to visit.
(d) Life will be better.

4. What does Anita hear her father talk about on the phone that she finds confusing?
(a) Boarding schools.
(b) Vacations.
(c) Bees.
(d) Butterflies.

5. What is significant about Anita's family?
(a) They are the only family left who has lived in the compound.
(b) They are the most wealthy of the families that live in the compound.
(c) They are not from the Dominican Republic originally.
(d) They have not sought permission to enter the U.S.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Carla?

2. What influence does Mr. Smith have on the behavior of some of the families?

3. What does the teacher tell Carla to do?

4. Who does Anita's father take to work the day after Carla leaves?

5. What is Chucha's opinion about these men?

(see the answer key)

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