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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 is the name of the narrator's brother?
(a) Rafa
(b) Jose
(c) Ysrael
(d) Juan

2. Who does the narrator say smells likes the wind through a tree?
(a) Ysrael
(b) Rafa
(c) Mami
(d) Papi

3. What does Rafa hit Ysrael with?
(a) A glass
(b) A book
(c) A stick
(d) A bottle

4. What is the nationality of the woman Papi is having an affair with?
(a) German
(b) American
(c) Puerto Rican
(d) Brazilian

5. Who has Yunior had homosexual experiences with?
(a) Dave
(b) Rafa
(c) Beto
(d) Wayne

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the final section of the story?

2. What does Yunior call his mother?

3. What country is Ysrael going to get his face operated on?

4. What kind of drink did Tia like to drink?

5. What does Yunior imagine his father tracing on his cheek?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is chapter four about?

2. How does Mami react when Papi writes that he is coming home?

3. How does the aunt help out the narrator?

4. How do the family react when Papi sends them a second letter saying he is coming home?

5. How does Ysrael try to help the two boys?

6. In what condition is the narrator's girlfriend?

7. How were the narrator and his friend Beto out of control?

8. Why does Yunior call his mother shadow warrior?

9. Why is Papi upset with the narrator?

10. How did Papi and Mami try to cure the narrator of his car sickness?

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