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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 Carla do to make the sneakers red?
2. What was the punishment for the owner of the marijuana?
3. What do the candles on the cake represent?
4. What is tacked to the central post in the cantina where Yolanda stops?
5. What village does Yolanda find herself in in the opening chapter of the book?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Mr. Garcia escape? What are the girls allowed to take with them? What will happen to the house when they are gone?
2. 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?
3. What happens to Carla when she enters the new school? Why is she not accepted? Why does she not complain?
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 was the mother missing about Yolanda's poetry? When she went to the readings, what did she think she was hearing?
6. How does Mr. Fanning react to his wife's drinking? What is the reaction of the girls' mother? Why does she react this way?
7. Why did Carla want red sneakers? Why was the color so important?
8. What did Sister Zoe tell the students about the Cuban Missile Crisis? How much description did she give to the kids? Why?
9. What was Rudy's family background? Why was this so fascinating to Yolanda? How did his background affect his personality?
10. How were the mother's inventions an important part of her American life? What did this say about her ambitions for herself?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
At the end of the story, as Yolanda describes the cat that haunts her dreams, do you sense that Yolanda is completely sane? Why? Why not? What does the end of the story tell us about Yolanda's future? Will she overcome her demons and live a normal life or will she always be haunted by the cat and everything it symbolizes?
Essay Topic 3
How do you think being raised around all men with machismo affected the girls in their lives? How do they end up viewing men like their father and other men from the island? Are they attracted to men like this in later life? What about Otto? Does he possess these same qualities?
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