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

2. With Rufina and Rafa’s mother dead, what has happened to the siblings?

3. Officer Armijo starts his car and knows that when he is having dinner with his wife and four sons that evening, his mind will be on what?

4. What did Rosalinda do the day the Explorer left?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do we know about the relationship between Officer Armijo and Rufina, based on the the "Friday" section of the book?

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

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

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

6. Why is Rufina concerned that the angel has arrived in "Friday," Chapter Seven?

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

8. What does "Friday," Chapter Ten continue to reveal about Rufina and her desires?

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

10. How are the Original Enduring Ones described?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Rosalinda's ancestral stories are very important to her, yet her memories soon began to fade and get jumbled. How does this support the theme of loss? In what other ways does Rosalinda lose? What does she also gain? How is this loss and gain important to Rosalinda and the story?

Essay Topic 2

Child abuse becomes much more apparent in “Saturday.” What abuse is described by the narrator? How are the various characters affected by it? How does this abuse affect the story? How is abuse related to the theme of resiliency?

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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