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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Anita write in her June 3, 1961 diary entry?
(a) They were allowed to tell Papi goodbye.
(b) Her Papi is back.
(c) She can write as much as she wants now.
(d) Tio Tony is dead.

3. From whom does Anita want to hide the discovery that is discusses in question 113?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Sam.
(d) Lucinda.

4. What small chance Anita and Mami comes and goes?
(a) To get on a plane to Italy.
(b) To get on a ship to England.
(c) To return home to get more of their possessions..
(d) To get on a small plane to Florida.

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

6. What happens the next morning after El Jefe is assassinated just as Chucha is waking Anita?
(a) They hear several helicopters landing nearby.
(b) They hear a huge explosion.
(c) Men come in her room and search it.
(d) There is an announcement on television.

7. What does Anita give Chucha?
(a) Some pictures of Anita and Lucinda to keep for her.
(b) Her stained sheets.
(c) Some coins.
(d) Flowers.

8. What grade is Anita placed in at school in New York?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 8.
(d) 7.

9. Where do they find El Jefe's body?
(a) In the basement.
(b) In the tool box on the Ford truck.
(c) In the jungle near the compound.
(d) In the trunk of a car.

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

11. What obstacles does she have to get past when she writes Oscar?
(a) She has to be careful because she is a young girl and it would be unseemly to be too forward.
(b) She does not want to encourage him romantically.
(c) She does not want to make him envious of her being out of the country.
(d) The letter has to get past censors.

12. Why is Lucinda frightened?
(a) Anita has caught El Jefe's attention.
(b) She is about to become a legal adult.
(c) She has caught El Jefe's eye.
(d) She is ill.

13. What do the grandparents call Thanksgiving?
(a) The day of the turkey.
(b) Thanksgiving.
(c) That American holiday.
(d) That Indian holiday.

14. How does Anita view El Jefe?
(a) As an old man who wants everything his way.
(b) As the country's hero.
(c) As a grandfather type.
(d) As an old man whose actions are breaking up her family.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when a car rams the Washburns car in traffic?

2. In what format does Anita write some of her journal entries?

3. Where do the children now go for school lessons?

4. What does Anita decide about men?

5. Why are so many people arrested?

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