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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 kinds of services does the spa in the gated community in Naples offer that cause consternation among some residents?
(a) Fortune telling.
(b) Illegal drug administration.
(c) Sexual services.
(d) Plastic surgery.

2. What evidence do the police find of Savvie's and Carolina's abduction that is particularly difficult for the sisters to confront?
(a) Knives.
(b) Videotapes.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Handcuffs.

3. What does a loose woman's apartment look like in the story "Difficult Women"?
(a) Like a restaurant.
(b) Like a hospital.
(c) Messy.
(d) Bright and well-appointed, but never lived-in or like a home.

4. Why do the couple that live in 1217 Ridgewood Road in the story "Florida" get their GEDs instead of finishing high school?
(a) They wanted to start the high-paying jobs they were offered before graduating from high school.
(b) They wanted to do an accelerate college program.
(c) They wanted to leave town to travel the world.
(d) They wanted to get married before graduating from high school.

5. Who comes to the strip club only to watch Sarah dance?
(a) Alvarez.
(b) James Michaels.
(c) Father Michael Patrick Minty.
(d) William Livingston III.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Bianca and her husband go on their honeymoon?

2. What does a loose woman see in the mirror in the story "Difficult Women"?

3. What does Magnus teach Kate how to do outside his trailer?

4. Where does Alvarez work?

5. What is one of Savvie's boyfriend's annoying habits?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Alvarez hesitant to get more involved with Sarah in "La Negra Blanca," even though he adores her?

2. Why does Sarah let everyone assume she is white in the story "La Negra Blanca"?

3. Why is William Livingston briefly appalled when he finds out that Sarah is mixed-race in "La Negra Blanca"?

4. Why is the ceiling at Bianca's office moldy and rotted in "Water, All Its Weight"?

5. In the story "Difficult Women," what is it about death that makes girls more interesting?

6. What do Bianca's parents do with her when she is a baby?

7. What shocking realization does the narrator come to at the end of "The Mark of Cain"?

8. Why does the narrator in "The Mark of Cain" decide not to let on that she knows her husband switches places with his twin?

9. How does Tricia judge the clients she cleans houses for in the story "Florida"?

10. Why does Sarah, who goes by Sierra at work, perform at a strip club?

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