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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When Rudy and Yolanda wrote together, what was the outcome?
(a) A pornographic poem.
(b) They got nothing done.
(c) A beautiful sonnet.
(d) An amazing story about a young girl.

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

6. After college, when did Yolanda see Rudy again?
(a) After she was married with children.
(b) When she was in graduate school.
(c) When she was back on the island.
(d) When she was abroad.

7. When the mother was confronted by a salesclerk in a store, how did she put them off?
(a) She told them she would have to talk purchases over with her husband.
(b) She did not put them off, but bought everything in sight.
(c) She told them she had no money.
(d) She told them she cannot speak English.

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

9. What did Rudy bring to Yolanda when they met later in life?
(a) A book of sonnets.
(b) Chinese food.
(c) A bottle of wine.
(d) A pen.

10. 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 had uncomfortable furniture.
(d) The patio needed painting.

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

12. What invitation did the mother give to the person she met at the hospital?
(a) She invited him to dinner.
(b) She invited him to lunch.
(c) She invited him to hold her grandchild.
(d) She invited him to name the baby.

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) A girl on a poster.
(d) Eleanor Hoover, daughter of the mayor of New York.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years pass when Yolanda and Rudy meet later in life?

2. What is tacked to the central post in the cantina where Yolanda stops?

3. What did the mother always call the girls?

4. Who did the mother engage in a conversation with at the hospital?

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

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