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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 watches the shadows everyone casts and tries to do what?
(a) Catch them.
(b) Remember the different meanings.
(c) Stand in them.
(d) Paint them.

2. On "Saturday," Chapter One, what is one thing that does NOT bother Rufina?
(a) Her plan for saving her brother may not work.
(b) The angel refuses to help her.
(c) Her mother is dead but will not leave.
(d) There are not enough tourists in the plaza.

3. For how long has Baby been at the home?
(a) 4 years.
(b) 14 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 4 months.

4. Rafa remembers back to a time when he was old enough to know better but, as his mother was absorbed by her ink drawings, he pretended to be a powerful beast and did what?
(a) Destroyed her garden.
(b) Smoked cigarettes.
(c) Broke into the house.
(d) Ran away.

5. The narrator describes the townspeople, as Rufina and Rafa perform in "Saturday," Chapter Two. Who does he NOT describe?
(a) The foreign clerks selling goods from China.
(b) The dishwashers and their cracked hands.
(c) The government officials on their way to work.
(d) The Original Enduring Ones selling their wares on blankets.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens when the teen thief runs away from the angel?

3. Why does Officer Armijo refuse to blow his nose?

4. The narrator says, if we are quiet, we do what?

5. Every time Baby disappears, what happens?

(see the answer key)

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