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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 learn when she finishes her letter to Oscar?
(a) Her Papi is perhaps to be released soon.
(b) No mail is getting through to her country.
(c) Oscar's family has moved back to Italy.
(d) Oscar has moved out of the country, but no one knows where.

2. What does the teacher tell the students at school?
(a) That the school will not be closing as the rumors suggest.
(b) That the students must wear badges with El Jefe's picture on them.
(c) That the school is closing down temporarily.
(d) That El Jefe is visiting that day.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to see Anita and Mami?

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

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

4. What is Anita beginning to have a hard time doing?

5. Why do the children go to their new school in the consul's car ?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Anita and Mami communicate with Mundo?

2. What does Anita decide about men and why?

3. How does Mrs. Mancini's distrust of people turn out to be fortuitous?

4. What does Anita overhear her father say about the Washburns?

5. What does Papi and the Washburns decide to do about Lucinda?

6. What arrives for Lucinda the day after the party, and how does Lucinda feel?

7. Who does Anita see out the bathroom window and what does she think?

8. Why can't Anita stay with Lucinda until Lucinda leaves?

9. What does Anita learn about Chucha?

10. What do the children do after the American school is closed and how do they get to school?

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