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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Rudy try to get Yolanda to do?
2. What happened when the father heard Yolanda's school speech?
3. Who helps Yolanda find the food she wants?
4. How did the mother dress her daughters when they were small?
5. How did Yolanda tell John she was leaving him?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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.?
2. What is the significance of the electric typewriter? What does it mean to Yolanda? To her mother? To her father?
3. How does Carla view the celebration dinner for the family's first American year? Why do the parents view it differently from the kids? What is this telling the reader?
4. 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?
5. What happens to Carla when she enters the new school? Why is she not accepted? Why does she not complain?
6. How is Yolanda cured of her mental illness? What brings her back to reality?
7. 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?
8. What was the mother missing about Yolanda's poetry? When she went to the readings, what did she think she was hearing?
9. How does Mr. Garcia escape? What are the girls allowed to take with them? What will happen to the house when they are gone?
10. How were the girls affected by their mother dressing them all alike, but in different colors? Why did they refer to it as "assembly-line" mentality?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
It seems important in the novel for the children to be educated, even if only for a few years, in America. What do you think is the opinion of U.S. colleges as compared to colleges on the island? What is an education in America going to give the children that they will not receive at home? It also seems important to travel to America for those who can afford it. Is it viewed as an important part of the childrens' education to be exposed to America?
Essay Topic 2
What is symbolic about the toys that grandmother returns with from New York? Why does she always bring gifts? Do you think she feels guilty about the children being born into a family that is in danger? Explain your answer.
Essay Topic 3
How do you think this story would be different had the family never moved to the U.S.? What would have happened to the father? Do you think the grandfather had the political muscle to help the father and allow him to stay on the island? Why? Why not?
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