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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What is the angel doing as she leans against a tree outside in "Friday," Chapter Nine?
(a) Listens and feels the pulse of the land.
(b) She is crying.
(c) She is hiccuping.
(d) She is listening to the children.

3. 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) To the plaza.
(d) Into the country, back to their home.

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

5. On Friday, when Rufina asks her, very-much-present-yet-dead mother what she was up to, what is Rosalinda's response?
(a) Nothing.
(b) I want to continue making your life miserable, even though I am dead.
(c) I am trying to haunt you.
(d) It is none of Rufina's business.

6. Rufina wants her brother gone and to spend her days doing what?
(a) Performing in the plaza.
(b) Ignoring her dead mother.
(c) Reading quietly alone.
(d) Nursing her dead baby.

7. With Rufina and Rafa’s mother dead, what has happened to the siblings?
(a) They seem to have reverted back to childhood.
(b) They have grown in maternity.
(c) They have left their hometown.
(d) They have been separated.

8. How old are Rufina and Rafa?
(a) 19 and 20.
(b) 18 and 20.
(c) 29 and 30.
(d) 28 and 30.

9. How many months apart are the siblings?
(a) 20 months.
(b) 10 months.
(c) 24 months.
(d) 12 months.

10. What is Rosalinda's nightly routine?
(a) Haunting the town.
(b) Crying under the mulberry tree.
(c) Curling up with Rafa.
(d) Emptying the cupboards.

11. What was the relationship between the mother and the Explorer?
(a) The Explorer treated their mother as if she were his wife.
(b) The Explorer and mother were husband and wife.
(c) The Explorer and mother were enemies.
(d) The Explorer and mother were close friends.

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

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

14. In the "Friday" section flashback, what does Rufina take that she has found stashed away by her brother?
(a) A bottle of alcohol.
(b) Their mother's pain pills.
(c) A rope.
(d) Illegal drugs.

15. Where does Rafa consider squirting hot sauce?
(a) Up his nose.
(b) At Rufina.
(c) In his mouth.
(d) At Baby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rufina's response when Rafa reminds her that what they are doing this weekend is just what the Explorer had used them for to earn money?

2. Rufina is always the first up and does what before Rafa finds out?

3. In this town, what could Rosalinda pretend?

4. In "Friday," Chapter Three, Rafa sends his attention in the direction of the wife, and, noticing, what does she do?

5. The narrator describes the protective and loving nature of what inanimate object?

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