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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 want in the event she is taken away?
(a) To go with Oscar.
(b) To be brave.
(c) A pill that instantly kills her.
(d) To be able to say goodbye.

2. From whom does Anita want to hide the discovery that is discusses in question 113?
(a) Lucinda.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Sam.

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

4. What is Anita beginning to have a hard time doing?
(a) Remembering words.
(b) Remembering Lucinda's face.
(c) Feeling any hope about the future.
(d) Sleeping.

5. What does Anita's mother do after talking to Mr. Washburn?
(a) Enrolls her children in Catholic school.
(b) Tries to decide about returning to her home.
(c) Welcomes Mr. Washburn's girls to stay when they want.
(d) Writes to her parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is/are arrested?

2. Why are the adults remonstrating themselves?

3. Where do they find El Jefe's body?

4. Who rescues Anita and her mami?

5. How do Anita and her mother communicate with Mundo?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Anita decide about men and why?

2. What do Mami and Anita do in hiding?

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

4. What message from Chucha does Tia Mari give Anita ?

5. What does Papi say he wants for his children?

6. What do Anita's diary entries for June 3, and June 5, 1961, say?

7. What does Anita learn about Chucha?

8. What does Anita know about why Americans celebrate Thanksgiving?

9. How do Anita and Mami communicate with Mundo?

10. What does Anita do when she discovers she has begun her first period?

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