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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 do the first night he met Yolanda?
2. Which sister has a baby?
3. What village does Yolanda find herself in in the opening chapter of the book?
4. What was the mother always doing in her spare time in America?
5. What did the other students at the American school think of the background of the sisters?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the girls' mother view finding the marijuana? What does this symbolize for the mother?
2. How does Mr. Fanning react to his wife's drinking? What is the reaction of the girls' mother? Why does she react this way?
3. What is important about the dinner with the Fannings? Why is it so important to the girls' parents?
4. 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?
5. 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?
6. How does the author describe the public schools in New York?
7. When Mrs. Garcia makes a plate of food for the men in her house, what does she do to assure them that the food is okay?
8. What is the significance of the father asking for a cab to go to dinner?
9. What is significant about the rift between Sofia and her father? What does this say about his attitudes in their new country?
10. Why are the boys not interested in Yolanda once she gets to college? What changed between high school and college?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Why do all the servants who work for the family have wild backgrounds? Why do some of the servants dabble in voodoo or magic? How does all this relate to Sandi curing one of the servant's children and the sculptor using her face as the face of the Virgin Mary? What does this say about the society at large on the island?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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