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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 the girls take turns being?
2. What happens to Sofia's father as the evening wears on at the party?
3. How did Yolanda tell John she was leaving him?
4. Who appeared at all of Yolanda's poetry readings?
5. In the American school, who was the Hoover girl?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Carla want red sneakers? Why was the color so important?
2. Why did Yolanda like Sister Zoe so much? What did the nun do to make Yolanda feel welcome and important?
3. How does Mr. Garcia escape? What are the girls allowed to take with them? What will happen to the house when they are gone?
4. Why were the girls not supportive of their mother's inventions? Why did they not take them seriously?
5. What happens to Carla when she enters the new school? Why is she not accepted? Why does she not complain?
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. 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?
8. How is Yolanda viewed by the other people on the island? How does the owner of the cantina see her? The boy? The workers who help her with her car?
9. 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?
10. What did the girls' father say about having all girls? Do you think he really felt this way?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why does the author describe the aunts in dresses of mourning and uncles who disappear from family gatherings, but the children never seem to notice? Does it mean that these men are dead or in prison? Why does the author never explain? Is she telling it from a child's point-of-view and the children don't notice the missing men?
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
What are the three encounters with nudity in the novel? How does each encounter seem to affect the child? Is there long-term damage to the child or is it quickly forgotten? Why do you think so? Since the stories are told through history, how accurate do you think the stories are?
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