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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 is Manual Gustavo related to the girls?
(a) He is a long-lost brother.
(b) He is a cousin.
(c) He is a third cousin.
(d) He is an uncle.

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

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

4. What name do the sisters give to Otto?
(a) The camp counselor.
(b) The sympathizer.
(c) The saint.
(d) Chubs.

5. What did the other students at the American school think of the background of the sisters?
(a) They thought they were cool.
(b) They thought they were stupid.
(c) They thought they were related to a dictator.
(d) They thought their skin was too dark.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the American school, who was the Hoover girl?

2. What cured Yolanda?

3. What do the sisters blindfold their dad with when they play a game?

4. What does the cantina owner offer Yolanda to drink?

5. What is Yolanda's name in Spanish?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. When the father returns from the U.S. what is he discussing with his wife? Why are they talking about the skyrocketing prices in the U.S.?

7. What does Yolanda see in her sleep every night? What does this mean? She continues to see the same image after they move to America and as an adult? What does Yolanda think it is?

8. How is Yolanda cured of her mental illness? What brings her back to reality?

9. 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?

10. 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?

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