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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. Rafa, as he listens to his sister and mother from under the bed on Friday, remembers back to what?
(a) Yesterday.
(b) High school with Rufina.
(c) Cigarette runs for his mother and his need for her attention.
(d) A happy childhood.

2. In Rufina's dream, the ancestral women push, pull, and beat on Rufina, as if she were what?
(a) Dirty laundry being washed and hung out to dry.
(b) A stone being carved.
(c) Mud and being created.
(d) An animal meant to plow the field.

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

4. Who is sitting on the couch listening to the confrontation between mother and daughter on Friday?
(a) The Grandmothers to All.
(b) The Original Enduring Ones.
(c) The angel.
(d) Officer Armijo.

5. Where does Rafa hide to mourn his mother?
(a) In his room.
(b) Under her bed.
(c) In his mother’s tomb.
(d) Under the mulberry tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old are Rufina and Rafa?

2. What is necessary with the presence of the dead among the living?

3. Rufina initially does not sing but does what in the plaza on Saturday?

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

5. What does Rufina reassure Baby?

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