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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anita use to communicate with Oscar?
(a) Writing in the fog on the bathroom window.
(b) A book she is given.
(c) Slips of paper in the laundry.
(d) Morse code.

2. Who rescues Anita and her mami?
(a) Some local militia.
(b) The British intelligence.
(c) Paratroopers in a helicopter.
(d) The Italian government.

3. What does Chucha do for Anita?
(a) Stuffs her belongings in a laundry bag.
(b) Teaches Anita how to feel unafraid.
(c) Gives her a family heirloom.
(d) Teaches Anita how to understand her dreams.

4. Why does Anita think Oscar may know she is there?
(a) He writes in the ground outside the bathroom window.
(b) He looks at the bathroom window.
(c) He waves when he is in the yard, and no one is around.
(d) He puts a note on the bathroom windowsill.

5. What does Anita's mother suggest the men do?
(a) See if they can get some backing from the British.
(b) Not rush into things and be careful.
(c) Continue as if nothing is wrong.
(d) See if the rebels have any assassination plans.

6. What is Pupo supposed to do?
(a) Announce the liberation.
(b) Have live coverage of the liberation for the world to view.
(c) Arrange for his family to get out of the country.
(d) Contact the CIA.

7. What word do they receive on Mundin?
(a) He has been arrested.
(b) He is ill.
(c) He is in Colombia.
(d) He is being sent out of the country.

8. What does Anita realize the next morning?
(a) She is no longer enamored of Sam.
(b) She is going to be more on her own.
(c) She has had her first period.
(d) She finds Oscar more interesting than Sam.

9. What does Anita do after the teacher makes her announcement?
(a) Protests.
(b) Puts her head on her desk.
(c) Cries.
(d) Screams.

10. Under what guise will Lucinda travel?
(a) An adopted daughter.
(b) A scholar.
(c) A maid.
(d) A college student.

11. Who shoots the family dogs?
(a) Some men who are celebrating.
(b) A neighbor.
(c) The secret police.
(d) Some soldiers who are target practicing.

12. Why is Mr. Washburn in New York City?
(a) He has brought his daughters there to live with their grandparents.
(b) He's come to tell them that Papi and Tio Toni are dead.
(c) He is consulting with a construction company there.
(d) He has broght Mundo to his family.

13. Who is/are arrested?
(a) Just Tio Tony.
(b) No one.
(c) Papi, Tio Tony and Mundin.
(d) Papi and Tio Tony.

14. What do the Washburns decide to offer concerning Lucinda?
(a) Advice.
(b) Protection in the American embassy.
(c) Protection in the British consulate.
(d) A way to get Lucinda out of the country.

15. Where are Mami and Anita living according to Anita's June 5, 1961entry?
(a) In the American embassy.
(b) In the British embassy.
(c) In the jungle with some other families.
(d) In a closet in the Mancini home.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Anita and Mami hear on the radio?

3. What does Chucha do with what Anita gives her?

4. What does Anita decide about men?

5. What does Tio Pepe give to Anita when he visits?

(see the answer keys)

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