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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who did the mother engage in a conversation with at the hospital?
(a) A nurse.
(b) A young father whose wife just had a baby.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Her husband.

3. What did John always do with his clothes?
(a) Washed them in the bathtub.
(b) Folded them neatly.
(c) Placed them over the chair.
(d) Washed them in the sink.

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

5. On the island, what was different about the patio where men and women sit and talk?
(a) The patio was segregated, men on one side, women on the other.
(b) The patio had a mosquito net.
(c) The patio needed painting.
(d) The patio had uncomfortable furniture.

6. What did Carla do to make the sneakers red?
(a) Painted them with red nail polish.
(b) Painted them with spray paint.
(c) Cut her finger and dyed them with her blood.
(d) Dyed them red.

7. What do the candles on the cake represent?
(a) The 5 aunts and their families.
(b) The 5 girls cousins.
(c) The 5 cities where relatives live.
(d) The 5 years Yolanda has been gone.

8. Why did John call Yolanda Violet?
(a) That was her favorite color.
(b) That was her least favorite color.
(c) After "shrinking violet" when she started seeing a shrink.
(d) That was her favorite flower.

9. When the mother says there are now 6 girls, who is she referring to?
(a) Her six daughters.
(b) The six aunts.
(c) The four daughters, the new grandbaby and herself.
(d) Her six granddaughters.

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

11. What did Yolanda think about the speech her mother wrote for her school program?
(a) It was her mother's last invention.
(b) Her mother was cool.
(c) Her mother was a terrible writer.
(d) Her mother was trying to embarrass her.

12. What did Sandi think she was turning into?
(a) Yolanda.
(b) A dog.
(c) A flea.
(d) A monkey.

13. In the American school, who was the Hoover girl?
(a) The daughter of J. Edgar Hoover.
(b) Her parents owned Hoover Vacuum Cleaner company.
(c) Eleanor Hoover, daughter of the mayor of New York.
(d) A girl on a poster.

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

15. What do the sisters blindfold their dad with when they play a game?
(a) A handkerchief.
(b) A baby's coat.
(c) A kitchen towel.
(d) The baby's blanket.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who signed the papers to put Yolanda in a mental health facility?

2. What is the mother's first name?

3. At the beginning of the novel, how do the aunts and cousins view Yolanda?

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

5. What was Yolanda and John's relationship like in the beginning?

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