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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. In what format does Anita write some of her journal entries?
(a) An expository essay.
(b) A letter to Papi.
(c) A movie script.
(d) A poem.

2. How does the teacher react to Anita's response?
(a) The teacher tells her to stand at the back of the room.
(b) The teacher sends her to the principal.
(c) The teacher sends her to the nurse.
(d) The teacher just leaves Anita alone.

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

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

5. Who do the adults think has to be protected?
(a) Oscar.
(b) Anita.
(c) Lucinda.
(d) Sammy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Anita view El Jefe?

2. Where are Mami and Anita living according to Anita's June 5, 1961entry?

3. Who is at the Italian Embassy when Anita and her mother arrive there?

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

5. Why are so many people arrested?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Anita discover when she goes into Lucinda's room, and what is Anita's reaction?

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

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 message from Chucha does Tia Mari give Anita ?

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

10. What does Anita learn about Chucha?

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