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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When Rafa enters the house on Friday, what does he leave open?
2. When Rafa made cigarette runs all day, only buying one cigarette at a time, how did Rosalinda feel?
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. Rufina is always the first up and does what before Rafa finds out?
5. On Friday, when Rufina asks her, very-much-present-yet-dead mother what she was up to, what is Rosalinda's response?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Rafa want to do in "Friday," Chapter Nine?
2. What takes place in "Friday," Chapter Eight?
3. How are the Original Enduring Ones described?
4. What do the children know about their mother's ancestors?
5. How has the death of their mother affected Rufina and Rafa, at the beginning of the story?
6. How do Rufina and Rafa treat their mother, upon returning to their home in "Friday," Chapter Six?
7. What do we know about the relationship between Officer Armijo and Rufina, based on the the "Friday" section of the book?
8. How does Rafa describe the nightmarish bath he experienced once with his mother?
9. What does the narrator say about listening to the earth, in "Friday," Chapter Nine?
10. Describe the arrival of the angel in "Friday," Chapter Seven.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The narrator regularly goes back and gives the reader a view of the town and its people. Why might he or she do this? What is the importance of this return to the environment of the main characters? How does this affect the reader?
Essay Topic 2
It is discovered that the angel is male. Why might he pose as a woman? Why might the author have chosen to disguise the angel in this way? What other disguises are found throughout this story? What is the purpose of disguise in regard to this story?
Essay Topic 3
The reader meets the angel in Chapter Two. What is the role of the angel in the story? Why might the author have chosen to include an angel? How different might the story have been, if there had not been an angel? Explain.
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