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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 Oscar talk about concerning the country?
(a) Freeing it.
(b) The lack of a good educational system.
(c) The class structure that keeps people poor.
(d) Its noble history.

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

3. What are Carla and her siblings allowed to take?
(a) Three sets of clothing.
(b) Only what they are wearing.
(c) A small valise each.
(d) One item.

4. Where is the setting of the school?
(a) Bermuda
(b) Dominican Republic.
(c) Haiti.
(d) Cuba.

5. What is decided about Susie's birthday?
(a) To have a huge party.
(b) To have a joint celebration for Lucinda and Susie.
(c) To have a celebration just for family.
(d) To have a very low-key celebration.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the children respond to their life?

2. What worries Anita?

3. Who comes over to spend time with Sammy?

4. How many men in dark glasses are in the Volkswagons?

5. What does Anita's mother say Anita can do again when they are free?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Anita begin to see their leader in a different light?

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

5. Why does Anita use a pencil in her journal?

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

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

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

9. What do the secret police do and say at the compound, and what worries Anita?

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

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