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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Yunior call his mother?
(a) Quiet splash
(b) Shadow warrior
(c) Ping
(d) Beautino

2. What is the name of the second section of the story?
(a) Oh well
(b) One of our nights
(c) Dealing
(d) Working day

3. What kind of drugs do the boys sell?
(a) Weed
(b) Cocaine
(c) Speed
(d) Heroin

4. What were Yunior and Beto robbing when security caught them?
(a) A bookstore
(b) A cafe
(c) A jewelers
(d) A clothes store

5. What country invaded the Domincan Republic in 1965?
(a) USA
(b) Brazil
(c) UK
(d) Congo

6. What can Mami not reach in her apartment?
(a) The latches
(b) The windows
(c) The ceiling
(d) The fan

7. What game do the kids play at the party?
(a) Poker
(b) Dominos
(c) Hide and seek
(d) Baccarat

8. What kind of people do Yunior and his friends like to abuse?
(a) Jews
(b) Rich kids
(c) Homosexuals
(d) Blacks

9. Where has the narrator's father gone to?
(a) America
(b) England
(c) Brazil
(d) Germany

10. What does Yunior imagine his father tracing on his cheek?
(a) A square
(b) The letter Y
(c) A triangle
(d) A circle

11. What is the title of the final section of the story?
(a) Come Out Like a Worm
(b) While You Were Gone
(c) Aurora
(d) Happiness is Bliss

12. What does the girlfriend beg the narrator to do when they have sex?
(a) Talk nice
(b) Enjoy himself
(c) Go easy
(d) Wear protection

13. What kind of animal attacked Ysrael?
(a) Dog
(b) Pig
(c) Tiger
(d) Bull

14. What does the aunt tell the narrator to do when he has finished eating?
(a) Brush his teeth
(b) Suck a mint
(c) Vomit
(d) Drink water

15. What has the narrator lived without for the first nine years of his life?
(a) A mother
(b) Money
(c) A father
(d) A car

Short Answer Questions

1. What transport do Mami and Yunior take to the mall?

2. What did Yunior and Beto used to do at the mall?

3. What does the narrator call his father?

4. What does Ysrael wear to hide his injuries?

5. What is the name of Aurora's child?

(see the answer keys)

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