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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. What kind of work did Gabi's mother do when she was five years old?

2. How does Gabi feel about Halloween?

3. What does Gabi decide to do to help her deal with her feelings about her father?

4. What is one of the things Gabi does after Eric breaks her heart?

5. What school year is Gabi about to start at the beginning of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Gabi most want to go to college as she sends her applications out?

2. Who does Gabi first have a crush on when her senior year starts and why does it never work out between them?

3. Why does Gabi decide not to tell Eric, her new boyfriend, about what is going on with her father's struggle with addiction?

4. What does Cindy tell Gabi just before their senior year of high school starts?

5. Why does Gabi dislike wearing dresses?

6. What does Gabi hide in various places around her room that she refers to as her stash?

7. What does Beto get arrested for?

8. Why is Gabi unhappy with her own skin color?

9. What does Gabi's mother say to her every time she goes out with a guy?

10. What upsets Gabi about the way Eric treats Sebastian at the mall?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay exploring how Gabi feels about her light skin color and how it relates to her perceptions of her own heritage, using specific examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Gabi ends up helping her enemy, Georgina, at a time and in a situation when Georgina needs it the most and has no one else to turn to. Write an essay exploring why Gabi decides to act with such empathy towards Georgina, citing specific references to the text in your answer.

Essay Topic 3

What is it about the phrase "boys will be boys" that annoys and enrages Gabi so much? Gabi writes a poem in list-format on her feelings about the phrase; what specific traumatic event in the novel does it directly connect to? Write an essay explaining your answer.

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