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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In this flash back in "Friday," Chapter Eight, it is a Saturday in the summer and the children follow their mother as she tries to sell what?
(a) Her paintings.
(b) Her sewing.
(c) Her trinkets.
(d) Her pottery.

4. The angel climbs through Rufina’s window and imagines Rufina how?
(a) As a young girl at age nine, then 12, then 14 and pregnant.
(b) As an old woman.
(c) As a baby.
(d) As a mother.

5. What are names the Explorer gave those located on the portál of the government building?
(a) His neighbors and friends.
(b) His competitors.
(c) Savage, injun, and chief.
(d) The Original Enduring Ones.

6. When the Explorer found out Rosalinda and her children had walked to town, what did he offer?
(a) To drive them home.
(b) To walk them home.
(c) Hire them an uber.
(d) Call them a cab.

7. As dusk settles on Friday, where are Rafa and Rufina headed?
(a) To the Grandmothers to All compound.
(b) Into the woods for a hike.
(c) Into the country, back to their home.
(d) To the plaza.

8. How does the narrator account for the different personalities and take on life of Rufina and Rafa?
(a) They were born in different seasons.
(b) They have different fathers.
(c) They had different schooling.
(d) They were raised differently.

9. What is a sign that the angel is coming?
(a) There is a bright light.
(b) Baby starts to cry.
(c) The air gets cold.
(d) The air is suddenly thick.

10. When Rafa enters the house on Friday, what does he leave open?
(a) The front door.
(b) His bedroom door.
(c) A book.
(d) The cellar.

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

12. In "Friday," Chapter Three, Rafa sends his attention in the direction of the wife, and, noticing, what does she do?
(a) She begins to sing.
(b) She puts money in the basket.
(c) She attempts to dance.
(d) She hides behind her husband.

13. Rufina realizes on Friday that, if she does what, her mother's ghost has to stay put?
(a) Closes her eyes.
(b) Keep doors closed.
(c) Listens to music.
(d) Sings.

14. "Friday," Chapter Eight begins with the children at what age?
(a) 9 and 7.
(b) 19 and 17.
(c) 30 and 28.
(d) 5 and 3.

15. 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) Rosalinda.
(c) Rufina.
(d) The siblings.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rafa hide to mourn his mother?

2. Officer Armijo thinks back to high school and how he longed for Rufina. How did Rufina view him?

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

4. How old are Rufina and Rafa?

5. How does the "Friday," Chapter Eight end?

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