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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lucinda look like?
(a) A Dominican magazine model.
(b) Like Yolanda.
(c) Like her mother.
(d) Like a boy.

2. What are the names the girls called their mother to make fun of her leisure activity?
(a) Mami Kodak.
(b) Statue of Liberty Mami.
(c) Mami the inventor.
(d) Thomas Edison Mami, Benjamin Franklin Mom.

3. Who helps Yolanda find the food she wants?
(a) The workmen who stop to help her.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Jose Duarte, Sanchez y Mella, the grandson of the woman who runs the cantina.
(d) One of her cousins.

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

5. What did Sofia's father find in her room when she was young woman that caused a stir?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Love letters from her beau.
(d) Liquor.

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

7. Who was Yolanda's psychiatrist?
(a) Dr. Tio.
(b) Dr. Elmenhurst.
(c) Dr. Garcia.
(d) Dr. Payne.

8. What is the mother's first name?
(a) Rosemary.
(b) Carla.
(c) Franny.
(d) Laura.

9. What colors did the mother use for her color code?
(a) Green, blue, rose and black.
(b) Purple, yellow, pink and red.
(c) Green, yellow, blue and pink.
(d) Yellow, blue, pink and white.

10. Who did the marijuana belong to?
(a) Mother.
(b) Sofia.
(c) Carla.
(d) Yolanda.

11. As adults, what do the daughters still come home for?
(a) A visit from island relatives.
(b) A birth.
(c) A wedding.
(d) Their father's birthday.

12. How much does Yolanda pay her young helper in the first chapter?
(a) More than a dollar.
(b) 6 dollars.
(c) 50 cents.
(d) 10 dollars.

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

14. Which sister has a baby?
(a) Sofia.
(b) Yolanda.
(c) Carla.
(d) Sandi.

15. How did Yolanda meet Rudy Elmenhurst?
(a) At a frat party.
(b) He came to her door one night.
(c) In a college English class.
(d) At lunch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Rudy do the first night he met Yolanda?

2. In the American school, who was the Hoover girl?

3. What kind of lists did John make?

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

5. What was the title of the autobiographical paper that the oldest daughter wrote?

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