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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. How does Anita's mother talk to Anita for the first time?
(a) As a dissatisfied wife.
(b) As a disappointed mother.
(c) As a frightened woman.
(d) As an adult.

2. What does Anita realize when she looks inside?
(a) Her cousin who went away with her uncle.
(b) The well is drying.
(c) The chickens are almost as cowed as the humans.
(d) Her uncle is there.

3. Who comes into the classroom?
(a) The principal.
(b) Another teacher.
(c) The nurse.
(d) A new student who happens to be a boy.

4. What does Chucha often see in her dreams?
(a) Monsters shaped like people.
(b) The past altered to bizarre visions.
(c) She never dreams.
(d) The future.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mami tell Anita and Carla to make them feel better?

2. How do the children respond to their life?

3. Where is Tio Tony?

4. How does Anita feel when Sammy has someone visit him?

5. For how long has Anita's country had the same leader?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Anita realize when she writes in her diary?

2. Why does Anita's mother send Anita to Tio Toni's home on her way to the party?

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

4. How does Anita's mother talk to her for the first time?

5. What happens when the teacher wants the children to play secret Santa for Christmas?

6. Upon what occasion do the people living in the compound decide to have a party?

7. What do Sammy, Anita and Oscar discuss?

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

9. The morning after Chucha moves in, who arrives at the compound after Anita's father leaves?

10. How does Antia compare American elections to those of her country?

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