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

2. How did Yolanda tell John she was leaving him?
(a) She wrote a note.
(b) She called him on the phone.
(c) She wrote a sonnet.
(d) She told him to his face.

3. Who appeared at all of Yolanda's poetry readings?
(a) Her sisters.
(b) Her boyfriend.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her father.

4. Why did Yolanda's parents become concerned about her?
(a) She locked herself in her room and wrote.
(b) She wouldn't eat.
(c) She talked all the time.
(d) She started dating her teacher.

5. What is Yolanda's name in Spanish?
(a) Josie.
(b) John.
(c) Yo.
(d) Yazi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What hangs from the belts of the two men who help Yolanda when her car breaks down?

2. Why did Sandra end up in a mental institution?

3. Who did the marijuana belong to?

4. What does the father finally end up doing in New York that gives him professional success?

5. On the island, what was different about the patio where men and women sit and talk?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where have the uncles gone who do not appear anymore at family holidays? Are they dead? Are they in prison? Where do you think they are?

2. What is the code that Mrs. Garcia sends to Don Victor via Chino? What does it mean? Is this also part of the safety plan?

3. Why is the mother not offended by Yolanda's speech, but her father is?

4. How were the mother's inventions an important part of her American life? What did this say about her ambitions for herself?

5. What did Sister Zoe tell the students about the Cuban Missile Crisis? How much description did she give to the kids? Why?

6. What is important about the dinner with the Fannings? Why is it so important to the girls' parents?

7. Why were the girls not supportive of their mother's inventions? Why did they not take them seriously?

8. Who is Yolanda talking to when she tells the story of John? Why is this important?

9. What is the symbolism of the Human Body? When it is broken and ruined what is the author trying to say to us?

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

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