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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 does Corregidora call his favorite girl?
(a) Manchengo.
(b) Dorito.
(c) Dorita.
(d) Chiquita.

2. What does Ursa dream while she is staying at Cat's place?
(a) That Mutt finds her.
(b) That Tadpole comes and saves her.
(c) That she is pregnant.
(d) That she is a famous singer.

3. What kind of plantation did Ursa's great grandmother work on?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Coffee bean.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Sugar Cane.

4. What does Cat make Ursa for dinner when she is staying there?
(a) Pot pie.
(b) Vegetable soup.
(c) Pot Roast.
(d) Fried chicken.

5. What does Cat do for a living?
(a) She straightens people's hair.
(b) She does laundry.
(c) She sings at another nightclub.
(d) She works at the factory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Cat not let anyone sleep on the couch?

2. When Ursa and Sal are talking for the first time, what does Sal drink?

3. According to Ursa, how did her father die?

4. What does Mutt's cousin ask Ursa that makes her mad?

5. Finish the sentence: "When it's time to give witness, I'll make a fetus out of ______."

Short Essay Questions

1. Who comes to visit Cat while Ursa is staying there? What does Ursa overhear Cat say about her?

2. What is Cat's reaction to Ursa's treatment of Jeffy? What does Ursa think about her treatment of Jeffy?

3. When Tadpole is concerned about the dark circles underneath Ursa's eyes, what does she tell him? What does the doctor prescribe?

4. When Jimmy comes into Happy's to talk to Ursa, what does she want Jimmy to tell Mutt? What happens later that night between Ursa and Tadpole?

5. After her second checkup, what does the doctor tell Ursa she can do? Who has apprehensions about this?

6. When Cat comes to visit Ursa, what question does she plant in Ursa's mind? What is Ursa's response to this?

7. Who was Corregidora? How is Ursa related to him?

8. What does Cat tell Ursa about her past? How does their conversation end?

9. While Ursa is staying at Cat's place, what does Cat tell Ursa about Tadpole? What does she say about Mutt?

10. Who is Tadpole with when he fails to pick Ursa up from work? How old is she?

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