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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Rafa cannot get in Rufina’s locked door, what does he do?
(a) He sleeps on the couch outside.
(b) He bangs on it.
(c) He climbs through her window.
(d) He picks the lock.

2. What does Rufina reassure Baby?
(a) Baby will go to heaven with the angel.
(b) Baby will be alive soon.
(c) Rufina will give Baby a sibling.
(d) Soon her brother will be gone and the two of them will be a family.

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

4. What does Rufina do to call for Baby?
(a) She has a special whistle.
(b) She shakes a rattle.
(c) She gets out her binoculars.
(d) She sings.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of "Saturday," Chapter Thirteen, what are Rafa and Rufina doing?

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

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

4. In "Friday," Chapter Ten, the angel is flying where?

5. When Rufina tries to begin her song about Baby on Saturday, she cannot. Why?

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