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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. Who is Gabi named after?
2. Why does Gabi not have a mobile phone of her own?
3. Why is Gabi disappointed with her father's latest attempt to get sober in her October 21 entry?
4. Why does Gabi feel like she cannot talk to her friends on the landline in her house?
5. Why does Gabi get angry at Eric at the mall on November 20?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Gabi's poem that she shared in class in October reveal about her relationship with her grandfather?
2. What does Gabi and her family find out about her father in September that really upsets them?
3. What upsets Gabi about the way Eric treats Sebastian at the mall?
4. Why does Sebastian end up staying with Gabi and her family for a while?
5. What does Gabi's mother say to her every time she goes out with a guy?
6. What is the main reason that Tia Bertha moves in with the Hernandez family as Gabi starts the school year?
7. How is Gabi worried that her mother's pregnancy will affect her own future?
8. Who does Gabi find out is spreading the word at school that Cindy is pregnant?
9. Why is Gabi unhappy with her own skin color?
10. Why does Gabi think her own mother should have more sympathy for Cindy after Cindy finds out she is pregnant?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing how Gabi's eulogy for her father embodies her complex feelings about him and their relationship.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing how going to shows and performing at The Grind Effect, the coffee shop where Gabi first encounters spoken word poetry performance, influences Gabi's self-esteem and sense of her place in a community of writers and artists.
Essay Topic 3
One of Gabi's most significant conflicts with her mother centers around what she sees as her mother's hypocrisy and double standards on the topics of abstinence and cultural expectations for girls and women. Write an essay analyzing Gabi's conflicts with her mother on these issues.
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