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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Friday, Chapter One - Chapter Five.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is necessary with the presence of the dead among the living?
(a) Incense.
(b) Trouble.
(c) An angel.
(d) A candle.

2. Officer Armijo thinks back to high school and how he longed for Rufina. How did Rufina view him?
(a) As her best friend.
(b) As just a friend.
(c) As her enemy.
(d) As a nuisance.

3. How does "Friday," Chapter One, begin?
(a) The sister, Rufina, sings a melancholy song about a lost baby.
(b) The Explorer has just arrived in the plaza.
(c) Rafa is reading the tourists’ shadows.
(d) Rosalinda is running for her life.

4. What does Rafa do to the male tourist, when no one is looking, on Friday?
(a) He pickpockets him.
(b) He tells him his fortune.
(c) He gives him money.
(d) He pushes him.

5. Officer Armijo starts his car and knows that when he is having dinner with his wife and four sons that evening, his mind will be on what?
(a) His wife and family.
(b) Rufina.
(c) Rosalinda.
(d) The siblings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rufina’s response to Officer Armijo, when he steps in during the commotion in the plaza on Friday?

2. In Chapter Two, where does the reader meet the angel?

3. Rafa repeats his mother’s name over and over again, like what, to remind himself that he is still alive?

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

5. As the angel looks at her watch in the beginning of the story, about what does she think?

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