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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Carla think of the yearly celebration of coming to America?
(a) She couldn't remember coming to America.
(b) She totally understood the fuss.
(c) It was great and she loved the cake.
(d) It was celebrating the day they lost everything.

2. What did Yolanda's 4th grade teacher tell the students about what was happening in the world?
(a) The Cubans wanted to come to America.
(b) The Cubans wanted to kill the Soviets.
(c) The Cuban bombs were pointed at Philidelphia.
(d) Cuba had Russian missiles pointed at New York.

3. What did Yolanda tell Mundin's mother when they were caught in the coal shed?
(a) They found kittens.
(b) They were eating guavas.
(c) That they were hiding from the guardia.
(d) They were spying on the dictator's grandson.

4. When asked what he wanted to be when he grows up, what did Mundin respond?
(a) He wanted to be an artist.
(b) He wanted to go to college in America.
(c) He wanted to play basketball.
(d) He wanted to go into the medical profession.

5. What did Carla's father tell her about Gladys?
(a) That she was dishonest.
(b) That she was a liar.
(c) That she couldn't be trusted.
(d) That she couldn't be a friend.

6. How did Yolanda almost get her dad killed?
(a) She bragged at school that her father was in the CIA.
(b) She said he had a gun.
(c) She said he had connections with the CIA.
(d) She told her cousins that they were leaving for America soon.

7. When the house was dressed up for the Christmas party, what did the poinsettias look like?
(a) White lights.
(b) Flaming torches.
(c) Glowing lanterns.
(d) Red trees.

8. When Carla reached the 7th grade, what did the nun at school suggest about her schooling?
(a) That Carla go to a private school.
(b) That Carla skip the 7th grade.
(c) That Carla should not go to school.
(d) That Carla should stay back a year and repeat grade six.

9. What did Sandi see when her father and Mrs. Fanning accompanied her to the restroom?
(a) Mrs. Fanning lost her skirt.
(b) Her father caught Mrs. Fanning.
(c) Mrs. Fanning kissing her father.
(d) Mrs. Fanning fell down.

10. What was the father's hiding place from the secret police?
(a) A space in the garage.
(b) A tunnel.
(c) His car.
(d) A compartment inside his closet.

11. The evening that the Garcias went to the restaurant to meet the Fannings, how did they get there?
(a) By bus.
(b) Their father drove them.
(c) In a cab.
(d) By subway.

12. Where did the Garcias live when they first arrived in New York?
(a) In a compound.
(b) On the streets.
(c) In a row house.
(d) In a small apartment.

13. What did Mundin want Yolanda to show him as a trade for the clay?
(a) That she is a girl.
(b) How she curled her hair.
(c) Her new book.
(d) How she could roll the clay.

14. Why did the bank get rusty?
(a) It was buried in the dirt.
(b) It was left out overnight in the rain.
(c) It was played with all the time.
(d) The island air made it rust.

15. What happened to Carla's schooling after the incident with the man in the car?
(a) She returned to the public school close to home.
(b) She returned to the island.
(c) She was home-schooled.
(d) She dropped out of school.

Short Answer Questions

1. On their last day in the Dominican Republic what were the girls allowed to take with them to the U.S.?

2. Why did Yolanda like her 4th grade teacher so much?

3. What did Yolanda's teacher tell her about snow.

4. When Carla was accosted on the way home from school, what kind of car was the man driving?

5. What did the father keep in his hiding place?

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