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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 they were related to a dictator.
(c) They thought their skin was too dark.
(d) They thought they were cool.

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

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

4. What was the mother always doing in her spare time in America?
(a) Going to museums.
(b) Ironing.
(c) Inventing things.
(d) Reading.

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

6. What happened to the speech that Yolanda wrote for school?
(a) Her father framed it and put it up on the wall.
(b) Her father tore it into pieces.
(c) Yolanda tore it into pieces.
(d) Her mother saved it in her personal trunk.

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

8. What was the hidden agenda behind the four girls spending summers in the Dominican Republic?
(a) To learn to dress better.
(b) To know Dominican ways for women.
(c) To learn to do hair and makeup.
(d) To marry Dominican boys.

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

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

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

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

13. What happens when the father is offended at the party?
(a) He silently gets up and leaves.
(b) He puts a stop to the game and the party is over.
(c) He loses his temper and yells at the girls.
(d) He leaves immediately.

14. After Yolanda and her father disagreed over her school speech, what gift did her father bring home to her?
(a) Ice cream.
(b) A new electric typewriter.
(c) A puppy.
(d) Canned peaches.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the first chapter of the novel, what does Yolanda want to do that shocks her relatives?

3. What did the girls take turns being?

4. What did Rudy bring to Yolanda when they met later in life?

5. What invitation did the mother give to the person she met at the hospital?

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