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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Still Lives.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Yolanda think snow was when she first saw it?
(a) She knew it was snow.
(b) It was paper falling from the sky.
(c) It was a ticker-tape parade.
(d) Fallout from an atomic bomb.

2. What happened when the father heard Yolanda's school speech?
(a) He was angry thinking Yolanda had insulted the teachers.
(b) He took the girls out to dinner in celebration.
(c) He was thrilled with the speech.
(d) He told the mother to bake a cake.

3. Why did Yolanda's parents become concerned about her?
(a) She locked herself in her room and wrote.
(b) She talked all the time.
(c) She started dating her teacher.
(d) She wouldn't eat.

4. What did Papito, the grandfather, do to make the government not like him very much?
(a) He joined the CIA.
(b) He rebelled against the government.
(c) He staged a takeover of the government.
(d) He resigned his United Nations post.

5. Who taught at the Catholic school that the girls first attended in New York?
(a) One of their aunts.
(b) Public school teachers.
(c) Their mother.
(d) The Sisters of Charity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the father's favorite artist to see when he went to the museum?

2. What expression was Carla so taken with that she used it over and over?

3. What was the secret phrase that the mother sent to Don Victor to tell him that there was trouble?

4. On the island, what was different about the patio where men and women sit and talk?

5. What was the punishment for the owner of the marijuana?

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