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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Drum.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the other students react to Carla in her new school in the 7th grade?
(a) The girls teased her about her clothes.
(b) They ignored her.
(c) The girls loved her long braided hair.
(d) A gang of boys taunted her.

2. When the mother said the girls were going to make her crazy, where did she say she would end up?
(a) Back on the island.
(b) On the streets.
(c) In Belleview.
(d) In the river.

3. What did the mother always call the girls?
(a) Her babies.
(b) By their names.
(c) By the color of their dresses.
(d) The four girls.

4. What saying did the father say about having four girls?
(a) "We need a rooster."
(b) "Good chickens have chicks."
(c) '"Good bulls sire cows."
(d) "Girls are worthless."

5. What year did Yolanda meet Rudy?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1967.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the mother dress her daughters when they were small?

2. What was rumored about the coal shed?

3. What did Yolanda see all the time sitting at the end of her bed?

4. How much does Yolanda pay her young helper in the first chapter?

5. What does the father finally end up doing in New York that gives him professional success?

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