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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are protesters dressed as they move through the city?
(a) Like soldiers.
(b) In dark garb.
(c) Like religious personages.
(d) In colors of the movement.

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

3. What happens when a car rams the Washburns car in traffic?
(a) Mrs. Washburn is injuried.
(b) Sam is injuried.
(c) Nothing other than a small dent in the bumber.
(d) The trunk pops open.

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

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

6. How does Anita feel every time she starts to write Oscar?
(a) Uncertain.
(b) Shy.
(c) Homesick.
(d) Chatty.

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

8. Why do the children go to their new school in the consul's car ?
(a) They are better protected since the windows are bullet proof.
(b) They are not stopped at checkpoints as often.
(c) They are given a special escort.
(d) It is the only transportation available to them.

9. What is revealed in Mr. Washburn's car when the accident occurs?
(a) A dead body.
(b) Weapons.
(c) Suitcases.
(d) Picnic supplies.

10. 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) Checkpoints every block.
(c) Video cameras on the street corners.
(d) Curfews.

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

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

13. Upon what does Anita's mother insist?
(a) That Anita not tell anyone about her period.
(b) That Lucinda wear decent clothing for her travels.
(c) That Anita not have to go to school.
(d) That they make everything look as normal as possible.

14. Why are so many people arrested?
(a) They do not know who killed El Jefe.
(b) They are using El Jefe's death to get rid of the opposition.
(c) El Jefe's son wants to punish anyone remotely associated with the assassination.
(d) They are trying to send a message.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the soldiers who come to the compound say they are taking the men they arrest?

2. What small chance Anita and Mami comes and goes?

3. Who does Anita see when she looks out the the bathroom window one day?

4. What grade is Anita placed in at school in New York?

5. Where is Anita a month and a half after the message from Chucha arrives?

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