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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rufina dreams about the Grandmothers to All who look more like who or what than old ladies?
(a) Young women.
(b) Rufina’s ancestors.
(c) Tourists.
(d) Elves.

2. What does Rafa do to the male tourist, when no one is looking, on Friday?
(a) He tells him his fortune.
(b) He pickpockets him.
(c) He gives him money.
(d) He pushes him.

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

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

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

6. 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 listening to the children.
(c) She is crying.
(d) She is hiccuping.

7. Officer Armijo steps in during the commotion on the plaza on Friday and and asks for what from the duo?
(a) Their permit to perform.
(b) Their instruments.
(c) Their song list.
(d) Their permit money.

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

9. How long ago did Rufina and Rafa's mother die?
(a) 4 days.
(b) 4 months.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 4 hours.

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

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

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

13. The narrator says, if we are quiet, we do what?
(a) See angels.
(b) See and hear the dead.
(c) Hear and feel the earth.
(d) Hear the earth crying out.

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

15. 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 hides behind her husband.
(d) She attempts to dance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old are Rufina and Rafa?

3. In "Friday," Chapter Five, the narrator flashes back to when?

4. As Rufina sings her siren song on Friday, the narrator describes her voluptuous breasts and light skin and Rafa’s darker complexion. Why do they look so different?

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

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