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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The Explorer asked if Rosalinda could fix a costume that had been torn. If so, he would pay her how much?
(a) Double.
(b) $5.
(c) Triple.
(d) $10.

4. As the angel looks at her watch in the beginning of the story, about what does she think?
(a) How late she is running.
(b) What time she should meet the siblings.
(c) Ways that time can be constructed.
(d) She needs a new watch.

5. 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 sewing.
(b) Her trinkets.
(c) Her paintings.
(d) Her pottery.

6. What is clear about the angel?
(a) She is one of the local performers.
(b) She is stunning.
(c) She is much taller than most women.
(d) She does not have wings.

7. Who is this story about?
(a) The angel.
(b) Rosalinda.
(c) Siblings Rufina and Rafa.
(d) The Explorer.

8. When is the only time that Rafa is calm?
(a) When he is performing in the plaza.
(b) When he is with his mother.
(c) When he is traveling or on an island surrounded by water.
(d) When he is near his sister.

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

10. In "Friday," Chapter Ten, the angel is flying where?
(a) Up in the sky.
(b) Onto the roof.
(c) To town.
(d) Through the woods.

11. What is something the Grandmothers to All do NOT do?
(a) Keep an eye on the community.
(b) Help women in need.
(c) Give local tours to the tourists.
(d) Make natural products out of seeds, honey, and other raw materials.

12. What did Rosalinda do the day the Explorer left?
(a) She committed suicide.
(b) She ran away.
(c) She moved to a new home.
(d) She burned his apron.

13. 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) A happy childhood.
(d) Cigarette runs for his mother and his need for her attention.

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

15. Officer Armijo thinks back to high school and how he longed for Rufina. How did Rufina view him?
(a) As a nuisance.
(b) As just a friend.
(c) As her enemy.
(d) As her best friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long has Baby been at the home?

2. On Friday, where is Rosalinda found resting?

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

4. Where does Rafa hide to mourn his mother?

5. Rufina goes to her room and picks up what two objects?

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