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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Rudy do the first night he met Yolanda?
(a) Came to her dorm room.
(b) Asked her to dinner.
(c) Asked her to a movie.
(d) Asked her for a kiss.

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

5. Why was Yolanda so pleased with the speech she wrote for school?
(a) She wrote the speech in Spanish.
(b) She finally sounded like herself in English.
(c) She felt she was a rebel.
(d) Because her father liked it.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Manual Gustavo related to the girls?

2. What kind of lists did John make?

3. Who did the marijuana belong to?

4. What are the names the girls called their mother to make fun of her leisure activity?

5. Who found the stash of marijuana?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the Guardia? What do they do when they come to the de la Torres compound? Why do they take the actions that they do?

2. How does Sister Zoe explain what snow is? Why is this explanation important to Yolanda?

3. Why does Sofia give her father the wet kiss in his ear? What is she trying to prove to her father? Why does this anger her father?

4. Why does Chucha not think it is a good idea for Carla to be back in the maid's room? What does this say about the relationships between the servants and the family?

5. How did Yolanda decide to leave John? What did she perceive was happening? What do you think was really happening?

6. When Mrs. Garcia makes a plate of food for the men in her house, what does she do to assure them that the food is okay?

7. When Sandi falls and breaks her arm who carries her to safety? Why does Sandi cling to this person? What mixed emotions are played out in this scene?

8. How does the author describe the public schools in New York?

9. When Sandi shows artistic talent, the maid, Milagros, takes Sandi to her sick son and they both believe Sandi cures the boy. How does this tie into the image of Sandi's face as the Virgin Mary? For what art has Sandi suffered?

10. How does Mr. Garcia escape? What are the girls allowed to take with them? What will happen to the house when they are gone?

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