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

2. What did Rudy ask Yolanda to borrow the first time he spoke to her?
(a) Paper.
(b) Her lunch.
(c) A cookie.
(d) A pen.

3. What kind of flowers did John bring home to Yolanda?
(a) Irises.
(b) Daisies.
(c) Wildflowers.
(d) Roses.

4. What are the names the girls called their mother to make fun of her leisure activity?
(a) Thomas Edison Mami, Benjamin Franklin Mom.
(b) Statue of Liberty Mami.
(c) Mami Kodak.
(d) Mami the inventor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the mother always call the girls?

2. What is Manual Gustavo's biggest flaw?

3. Which sister is considered the "plain one?"

4. When the mother was confronted by a salesclerk in a store, how did she put them off?

5. What shocked Yolanda about the appearance of Rudy's parents?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. When the girls are successful at removing Sofia from the island, what does this mean for Sofia and her future? Did the girls help their sister or hurt her?

3. What did the girls' father say about having all girls? Do you think he really felt this way?

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

5. 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?

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

7. Why did the girls' parents want them to return to the island every summer? Why did they not want them to live in the U.S. as adults?

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

9. Who is the man with the dog that Yolanda meets by the coal shed? Is he really a hunter as her aunt says? If he is a hunter, then why do they call the police when they hear gunshots?

10. What does it tell the reader to know that the de la Torres compound is next to the palacio of the dictator's daughter? Does this mean that grandfather is an important man? Why? Why not?

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