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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. Who does Adan sometimes sell coconuts to?
(a) Jacinthe.
(b) Coyote.
(c) Tone.
(d) Wilma.

2. What does Wilma tell Esme about what Carson has done to her in Chapter 11?
(a) That she will take care of Carson.
(b) Not to tell anyone about it.
(c) That God will put things right.
(d) To go to the police in secret.

3. Who does Adan tell Lala he wants to kill?
(a) Wilma.
(b) Mira Whalen.
(c) Carson.
(d) Stella.

4. What logo is on Adan and Lala's door?
(a) Ramen.
(b) Cheetos.
(c) Coke.
(d) Pepsi.

5. Why does Adan leave Lala at the hospital alone having their baby in Chapter 1?
(a) He is afraid the police will be looking for him because he just murdered a man.
(b) He goes to see the woman he is having an affair with.
(c) He goes to see his own mother.
(d) He has a job to do.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to visit Lala and Adan in Chapter 6?

2. What story does Wilma tell Lala in the Prologue?

3. What is wrong with the bathrooms in the hospital?

4. Why does Mira never feel as equal in her father's eyes as his other children are?

5. Who is Adan's mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Wilma tell Lala the story of the one-armed sister?

2. How does Baby die?

3. Why does Lala have to leave the hospital with Baby alone?

4. Why does Esme resent Wilma so much in later years?

5. Why does Mira repeatedly take the children to the convenience store in the middle of the night?

6. What does Lala like to do on the beach to earn money?

7. How does the hospital staff treat Lala when she has her baby there?

8. Why does Lala go out to find Adan in the middle of the night early in Part I?

9. Whose fault does Adan tell Lala he thinks Peter Whalen's murder is?

10. What lie does Lala tell about where Adan was when Baby "disappeared"?

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