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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Anita's papi explain to Anita?
(a) That Carla's family has received permission to leave the country.
(b) That Anita's mother and Anita must go to the United States.
(c) That she must go with Carla to the United Sates.
(d) That Carla's family has to go into hiding.

2. What do Carla and Anita find difficult?
(a) To choose items for the valise.
(b) To leave each other.
(c) To travel so far by train.
(d) To attend different schools.

3. What does Anita learn about their new housekeeper?
(a) She is from the city.
(b) She is a spy.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She is only 17 years old.

4. What happens when Anita asks adults about her country's leader?
(a) They brush aside her questions.
(b) They tell her she must not ask such questions.
(c) They explain that he is a dictator.
(d) They say that he has always won re-election because he is so popular.

5. What is significant about Anita's family?
(a) They are the only family left who has lived in the compound.
(b) They are not from the Dominican Republic originally.
(c) They have not sought permission to enter the U.S.
(d) They are the most wealthy of the families that live in the compound.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Anita and Chucha look at together?

2. What is she to tell the students about her absence?

3. What is another name for Mr. Smith?

4. What makes Anita think more?

5. With whom does Anita talk after going to her uncle's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Anita feel when Oscar comes over to play with Sammy?

2. What does Papi say when he returns from work?

3. What does Anita realize about Sam as she writes in her diary?

4. Why is Anita spending more time in the bathroom?

5. What does Papi explain to Anita about Carla when Anita gets home?

6. Who comes into the classroom and what does the teacher do?

7. Where is Anita at the opening of the story, and what is she doing?

8. What does Anita's mother say when the children are allowed to go back to school?

9. What does the teacher tell Carla and Anita after she goes outside to talk to Carla's mother?

10. What does Mami say about why the family is staying in the country?

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