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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. Why does Anita want to skip school the morning Lucinda is to leave?
(a) Anita is afraid of El Jefe.
(b) Anita wants to be with Lucinda until she leaves.
(c) Sam is not going to school that day and he's her protector.
(d) Oscar is not going to school that day and he's her protector.

2. 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.

3. What does Chucha do with what Anita gives her?
(a) Throws them away.
(b) Uses them to scare off the superstitious maid.
(c) Displays them.
(d) Hides them.

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

5. Where do the soldiers who come to the compound say they are taking the men they arrest?
(a) To where they took El Jefe.
(b) To stand trial.
(c) To hand over to Trujillo, Jr.
(d) They refuse to say.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anita know about a pill?

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

3. What does Anita's mother do after talking to Mr. Washburn?

4. What is revealed in Mr. Washburn's car when the accident occurs?

5. What do the grandparents call Thanksgiving?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are arrested in town and why?

2. What does Anita know about a pill and what does she think about it?

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

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

5. What does Anita learn about Chucha?

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

7. Where do soldiers find El Jefe's body and who do they arrest and what do they say about Papi and Tio Toni?

8. What does Anita write about their rescue from the compound?

9. What happens when Mr. Washburn is driving in traffic?

10. What happens the night before Lucinda leaves?

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