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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Rufina tells him that it is different now, because they are in control.
(b) Rufina says it is nothing like what he made them do.
(c) Rufina ignores Rafa completely.
(d) Rufina tells him there is nothing else they are capable of doing.

2. What does Rosalinda hope the plates and bowls can do for her?
(a) Annoy Rufina.
(b) Let Rafa know she is there.
(c) Bring her back to the stories she has lost or her past.
(d) Announce her presence to all that are in the home.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On Friday, when Rufina asks her, very-much-present-yet-dead mother what she was up to, what is Rosalinda's response?

2. 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?

3. When Rafa cannot get in Rufina’s locked door, what does he do?

4. What is something the Grandmothers to All do NOT do?

5. What is clear about the angel?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rafa describe the nightmarish bath he experienced once with his mother?

2. What does the reader know about the Explorer, based on the "Friday" section of the book?

3. How does the angel see Rufina in "Friday," Chapter Nine?

4. What takes place in "Friday," Chapter Eight?

5. How has the death of their mother affected Rufina and Rafa, at the beginning of the story?

6. What does the narrator say about listening to the earth, in "Friday," Chapter Nine?

7. What does "Friday," Chapter Ten reveal about Rafa?

8. How do Rufina and Rafa treat their mother, upon returning to their home in "Friday," Chapter Six?

9. Describe the arrival of the angel in "Friday," Chapter Seven.

10. How does the mother react to Rafa's attention-seeking cigarette runs?

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