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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Saturday, Chapter One – Chapter Seven.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Rafa noticing about the wife on Friday?
(a) Her shadow.
(b) Her sunburn.
(c) Her gray hair.
(d) Her expensive handbag.

2. Rufina dreams about the Grandmothers to All who look more like who or what than old ladies?
(a) Rufina’s ancestors.
(b) Elves.
(c) Tourists.
(d) Young women.

3. On Friday, when Rufina asks her, very-much-present-yet-dead mother what she was up to, what is Rosalinda's response?
(a) I am trying to haunt you.
(b) It is none of Rufina's business.
(c) Nothing.
(d) I want to continue making your life miserable, even though I am dead.

4. Rufina initially does not sing but does what in the plaza on Saturday?
(a) She creates music by tapping on a cookie sheet with her wooden heels, bells around her ankles, castanets, and finger cymbals.
(b) Cries.
(c) Dances.
(d) Recites poetry.

5. As the angel looks at her watch in the beginning of the story, about what does she think?
(a) How late she is running.
(b) Ways that time can be constructed.
(c) What time she should meet the siblings.
(d) She needs a new watch.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator account for the different personalities and take on life of Rufina and Rafa?

2. Rufina says that she may pretend her baby is alive, but the angel does what?

3. What did Rosalinda do the day the Explorer left?

4. Officer Armijo steps in during the commotion on the plaza on Friday and and asks for what from the duo?

5. Rufina goes to her room and picks up what two objects?

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