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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. Where are Mami and Anita living according to Anita's June 5, 1961entry?
(a) In the American embassy.
(b) In the jungle with some other families.
(c) In a closet in the Mancini home.
(d) In the British embassy.

2. 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.

3. What does Anita write about Mrs. Mancini?
(a) She is warm and friendly.
(b) She does not trust people.
(c) She cries all the time.
(d) She never talks.

4. What does Anita do after talking with Tio Pepe?
(a) Starts drawing.
(b) Writes down everything she remembers about the weeks before Papi is arrested.
(c) Comes up with a schedule.
(d) Writes her papi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anita decide about men?

2. What does Anita know about a pill?

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

4. How does Anita view El Jefe?

5. Where is Anita a month and a half after the message from Chucha arrives?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Anita overhear her father and other men talking about concerning Trujillo, and what does Anita's mother say to the men?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Anita decide about men and why?

9. What does Anita learn about Chucha?

10. What does the teacher tell the students in school the day Lucinda is leaving and how does Anita react?

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