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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 Yolanda think about the speech her mother wrote for her school program?
(a) Her mother was a terrible writer.
(b) It was her mother's last invention.
(c) Her mother was trying to embarrass her.
(d) Her mother was cool.

2. What did John always do with his clothes?
(a) Placed them over the chair.
(b) Washed them in the bathtub.
(c) Washed them in the sink.
(d) Folded them neatly.

3. Who signed the papers to put Yolanda in a mental health facility?
(a) Her parents.
(b) Carla.
(c) John.
(d) Nobody, she put herself in.

4. What happens to Sofia's father as the evening wears on at the party?
(a) He starts singing.
(b) He starts kissing all the girls.
(c) He becomes removed.
(d) He gets drunk and laughs loudly.

5. What invitation did the mother give to the person she met at the hospital?
(a) She invited him to hold her grandchild.
(b) She invited him to name the baby.
(c) She invited him to lunch.
(d) She invited him to dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the father's favorite artist to see when he went to the museum?

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

3. What was the title of the autobiographical paper that the oldest daughter wrote?

4. What did Sandi think she was turning into?

5. What did the girls take turns being?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to Carla when she enters the new school? Why is she not accepted? Why does she not complain?

3. 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?

4. How does Carla react when she is asked by her father to keep a secret about how Mrs. Fanning kissed him?

5. In the first chapter, why is the boy crying on the side of the road? Why would nobody believe him when he went for help? What does this say about the country?

6. 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?

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

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 did Carla want red sneakers? Why was the color so important?

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