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

2. What cured Yolanda?
(a) Words.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Creativity.
(d) Medicine.

3. What year did Yolanda meet Rudy?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1967.

4. What does the father finally end up doing in New York that gives him professional success?
(a) He returns to school and becomes a banker.
(b) He works in a clinic downtown.
(c) He becomes a college professor.
(d) He is a doctor at Centro de Medicina in the Bronx.

5. What is the mother's first name?
(a) Carla.
(b) Rosemary.
(c) Franny.
(d) Laura.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Yolanda's parents become concerned about her?

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

3. After college, when did Yolanda see Rudy again?

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

5. What does Lucinda look like?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Yolanda lose the drumsticks?

3. When Sandi falls and breaks her arm who carries her to safety? Why does Sandi cling to this person? What mixed emotions are played out in this scene?

4. Why did Yolanda like Sister Zoe so much? What did the nun do to make Yolanda feel welcome and important?

5. What insults did John say to Yolanda? Was he teasing, or was he serious? Was the relationship really abusive, or was Yolanda putting her own spin on her memory?

6. What is the response by the aunts to Yolanda's wish to take a drive in the country? Why do they all react this way? What do they warn Yolanda about?

7. 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?

8. During the Christmas party, the mother comes by Carla's room and looks in on her. Who is the mother with? What does this say about her relationship with her family? How important is the extended family to the mother?

9. 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?

10. What was the mother missing about Yolanda's poetry? When she went to the readings, what did she think she was hearing?

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