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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. What is the shape of the cake at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Round.
(b) The U.S.
(c) The island.
(d) Square.

2. What saying did the father say about having four girls?
(a) "Good chickens have chicks."
(b) "Girls are worthless."
(c) '"Good bulls sire cows."
(d) "We need a rooster."

3. What did Rudy try to get Yolanda to do?
(a) Buy him a car.
(b) Do his homework.
(c) Sleep with him.
(d) Give him money.

4. What speech was Yolanda asked to deliver at school that her mother helped her with?
(a) All Saint Day address.
(b) The President's address.
(c) Christopher Columbus Day address.
(d) The Teacher's Day address.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What happened to the speech that Yolanda wrote for school?

4. Why was Yolanda so pleased with the speech she wrote for school?

5. What is the mother's first name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the boys not interested in Yolanda once she gets to college? What changed between high school and college?

2. What does Yolanda think when she sees the snow falling? Where does she get this idea?

3. 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?

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

5. How were the girls affected by their mother dressing them all alike, but in different colors? Why did they refer to it as "assembly-line" mentality?

6. When Rudy and Yolanda meet years later, how is Yolanda different? Is she different? Is her reaction to Rudy different from when she was young? Why?

7. What is the significance of the father asking for a cab to go to dinner?

8. Whose face is on the statue at the National Cathedral? Who carved the statue? What is Sandi's reaction to seeing her own face reflected back at her?

9. What is significant about the rift between Sofia and her father? What does this say about his attitudes in their new country?

10. Why does the father say they fired Gladys? Why is trust so important to this family? How much to they rely on the servants for help?

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