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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of lists did John make?
(a) Lists of names.
(b) Flaw lists.
(c) Grocery lists.
(d) For and against lists.

2. What does the cantina owner offer Yolanda to drink?
(a) Water.
(b) Coca Cola.
(c) Pepsi.
(d) Tea.

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

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

5. At the beginning of the novel, how do the aunts and cousins view Yolanda?
(a) Like a professional woman.
(b) Like a young Spanish princess.
(c) Like a hippie.
(d) Like a Peace Corps girl who has let herself go.

6. Why did Sandra end up in a mental institution?
(a) She called her mother and she couldn't stop crying.
(b) She tried to starve herself to death.
(c) She wrote a disturbing letter home.
(d) She got really fat.

7. What did Rudy ask Yolanda to borrow the first time he spoke to her?
(a) A pen.
(b) Her lunch.
(c) A cookie.
(d) Paper.

8. What was the assignment that Rudy and Yolanda worked on together?
(a) To write an essay.
(b) To write a book.
(c) To write a sonnet.
(d) To write a speech.

9. What hangs from the belts of the two men who help Yolanda when her car breaks down?
(a) Machetes.
(b) Guns.
(c) Weed eaters.
(d) Gloves.

10. What was the punishment for the owner of the marijuana?
(a) To marry a man of her mother's choosing.
(b) To return home immediately.
(c) To stay on the Island with the family.
(d) To get a job and work off her debt to her parents.

11. How did the mother dress her daughters when they were small?
(a) All alike but in different colors.
(b) In the same color dresses.
(c) Differently to tell them apart.
(d) Like boys.

12. What did the other students at the American school think of the background of the sisters?
(a) They thought they were related to a dictator.
(b) They thought they were stupid.
(c) They thought they were cool.
(d) They thought their skin was too dark.

13. How is Manual Gustavo related to the girls?
(a) He is a long-lost brother.
(b) He is a cousin.
(c) He is an uncle.
(d) He is a third cousin.

14. Who was the father's favorite artist to see when he went to the museum?
(a) El Greco.
(b) Goya.
(c) Rembrandt.
(d) Monet.

15. Why is Sofia throwing the party for her father?
(a) Because she loves him.
(b) To reconcile.
(c) She wants to see her mother.
(d) It's her turn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who appeared at all of Yolanda's poetry readings?

2. Which sister has a baby?

3. When Rudy and Yolanda wrote together, what was the outcome?

4. What did Sofia's father find in her room when she was young woman that caused a stir?

5. What did Rudy try to get Yolanda to do?

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