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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the angel pound at the door?
(a) She wants everyone's full attention.
(b) She is worried something is wrong with the children.
(c) She is very angry with them.
(d) She is not sure the children hear her.

2. What is Rafa noticing about the wife on Friday?
(a) Her sunburn.
(b) Her expensive handbag.
(c) Her shadow.
(d) Her gray hair.

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

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

5. 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?
(a) They have different mothers.
(b) Rufina stays in the shade and Rafa works out in the sun.
(c) They have different fathers.
(d) Rufina wears sunblock, where Rafa does not.

6. 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.

7. In "Friday," Chapter Four, Officer Armijo watches the performance of the siblings, particularly Rufina. What does he think as he watches her?
(a) He wants to marry her.
(b) He wants her to leave town.
(c) He wants to guide and help her.
(d) He wants to arrest her.

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

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

10. On Friday, where is Rosalinda found resting?
(a) On her bed.
(b) On her rocking chair on the roof.
(c) Under the mulberry tree.
(d) On an old couch under the apricot tree.

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

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

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

14. Who is located on the portál of the government building?
(a) Officer Armijo.
(b) The Original Enduring Ones.
(c) Rufina and Rafa.
(d) The angel.

15. In "Friday," Chapter Five, the narrator flashes back to when?
(a) Rufina and Rafa were little children.
(b) Rufina and Rafa in high school with Lucio.
(c) The first time the family met the angel.
(d) The time right before Rufina coaxed her brother out from under the bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is necessary with the presence of the dead among the living?

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

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?

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

5. What are names the Explorer gave those located on the portál of the government building?

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