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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lucinda allow Anita to do that night?
(a) Write a letter to Carla.
(b) Sleep in her room.
(c) Put on some of her jewelry.
(d) Stay up later than usual.

2. Who comes to see Anita and Mami?
(a) Oscar.
(b) Mundin.
(c) Chucha.
(d) Sam.

3. How does the teacher react to Anita's response?
(a) The teacher sends her to the principal.
(b) The teacher just leaves Anita alone.
(c) The teacher sends her to the nurse.
(d) The teacher tells her to stand at the back of the room.

4. Who does Anita think about when her brother asks about his girlfriend?
(a) Oscar.
(b) Sam.
(c) A boy at school Anita was starting to like.
(d) The girl her brother likes..

5. What does Tio Pepe give to Anita when he visits?
(a) A letter from her Papi.
(b) A letter from Oscar.
(c) A drawing.
(d) A photograph.

6. What do Lucinda and Anita do that night?
(a) Cry and share memories.
(b) Eat pastries and listen to music.
(c) Talk about the future.
(d) Reassure each other.

7. What does Anita want in the event she is taken away?
(a) To be able to say goodbye.
(b) To go with Oscar.
(c) A pill that instantly kills her.
(d) To be brave.

8. Why does Anita want to skip school the morning Lucinda is to leave?
(a) Sam is not going to school that day and he's her protector.
(b) Anita wants to be with Lucinda until she leaves.
(c) Oscar is not going to school that day and he's her protector.
(d) Anita is afraid of El Jefe.

9. What does Anita's father tell her he wants for his children?
(a) For them to live without fear.
(b) For them to live free.
(c) For them to become citizens of the United States.
(d) For them to feel hopeful about their future.

10. What does Mr. Mancini tell Mami to do?
(a) Pack.
(b) Sit and wait and make no calls.
(c) Contact the United States embassy.
(d) Move away from the Capital.

11. Why does Anita's brother make this offer?
(a) To distract her from what is happening.
(b) To be kind to Anita.
(c) Because he is lonely..
(d) Because his mother asked him to.

12. Who do the adults think has to be protected?
(a) Sammy.
(b) Lucinda.
(c) Oscar.
(d) Anita.

13. Where do the soldiers who come to the compound say they are taking the men they arrest?
(a) To hand over to Trujillo, Jr.
(b) To stand trial.
(c) They refuse to say.
(d) To where they took El Jefe.

14. What does Anita hear her father and other men discussing?
(a) Killing El Jefe.
(b) All of them leaving the country.
(c) How to get both Lucinda and Anita out of the country.
(d) Beginning the revolution now.

15. Who almost discovers Anita and her mama?
(a) The Mancini daughters.
(b) The insurrgents.
(c) One of the locals the embassy hires.
(d) One of the clerks at the embassy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word do they receive on Mundin?

2. What does Anita know about a pill?

3. How does Anita feel every time she starts to write Oscar?

4. What does Anita's mother suggest the men do?

5. What happens the next morning after El Jefe is assassinated just as Chucha is waking Anita?

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