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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Pupo?
(a) The old man who cares for the chickens and other animals at the compound.
(b) Papi's code name.
(c) The head of the Army.
(d) A news anchor in the city.

2. What has the government instituted to control people's movements?
(a) People have to file requests to go more than two kilometers from their homes
(b) Curfews.
(c) Video cameras on the street corners.
(d) Checkpoints every block.

3. What does Anita's brother say when he comes home?
(a) The high school has shut down.
(b) His teacher has been arrested.
(c) He is joining the rebel forces.
(d) His best friend's father has been arrested.

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

5. What does Anita overhear about the Washburns?
(a) They have lodged a protest.
(b) They have taken refuge in the British embassy.
(c) They have to go back to the States.
(d) They are in trouble with El Jefe.

6. 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) See if the rebels have any assassination plans.
(d) Continue as if nothing is wrong.

7. How do Anita and her mother communicate with Mundo?
(a) Letters.
(b) Telephone.
(c) They see him face to face every few days.
(d) They are unable to communicate with him but very sporadically.

8. Where is Anita a month and a half after the message from Chucha arrives?
(a) In London.
(b) In New York City.
(c) In Miami.
(d) In Santo Domingo.

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

10. Where is Anita on Thanksgiving Day?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Queens.
(c) On her way back to her country.
(d) Miami.

11. What is Anita beginning to have a hard time doing?
(a) Remembering Lucinda's face.
(b) Remembering words.
(c) Feeling any hope about the future.
(d) Sleeping.

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

13. What concerns Anita's mother when she receives a call from the school?
(a) That Anita is having emotional difficulties.
(b) That Anita has told someone about Lucinda.
(c) That the teacher singles Anita out for punishment.
(d) That Anita has been hurt.

14. What does Anita do after talking with Tio Pepe?
(a) Starts drawing.
(b) Comes up with a schedule.
(c) Writes down everything she remembers about the weeks before Papi is arrested.
(d) Writes her papi.

15. What do Lucinda's family members and Susie tell Lucinda?
(a) Thewill project Anita.
(b) El Jefe will forget her soon.
(c) They will send her to the States.
(d) They will protect her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anita learn when she finishes her letter to Oscar?

2. Where do they find El Jefe's body?

3. Who is/are arrested?

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

5. For what does Anita check her uncle and father's pockets?

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