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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the girl do with her diary at the end of "Absolution in the New Year"?
(a) Hides it.
(b) Burns it.
(c) Tears up the pages.
(d) Starts to write lies in it.

2. What is the name of the salesman in "Not For Sale"?
(a) El Arabe.
(b) Mr. Gold.
(c) Francious.
(d) Le Spanard.

3. What did the girl's father read in her diary?
(a) The things she hated most.
(b) Friends that had betrayed her.
(c) Her dreams for her future.
(d) Her first puppy love.

4. What grade is the narrator in?
(a) Seventh.
(b) Tenth.
(c) Ninth.
(d) Eighth.

5. In "Absolution in the New Year", what does the girl's father feel the girl is becoming?
(a) A liar.
(b) A thief.
(c) A Jezebel.
(d) A fool.

6. What did the grandmother promise the grandfather when she returned from New York?
(a) To stay by his side.
(b) To let him move to the United States.
(c) To cook him dinner every night.
(d) To raise his children.

7. What animal is rumored to be among the sugarcane?
(a) Boars.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Slugs.
(d) Weasels.

8. What was the girl's father's day job?
(a) Mechanic for big trucks.
(b) Superintendent of the apartment building.
(c) Manager of a store.
(d) Handy man for people in New York City.

9. What color did "they" wear in "A Legion of Dark Angels"?
(a) Red.
(b) Brown.
(c) Green.
(d) Black.

10. How does the girl's mother react to the girl's father in "Fever"?
(a) She cries.
(b) She complains.
(c) She is silent.
(d) She argues.

11. What happen to some of the mother's prayers?
(a) They fall on the girl.
(b) They dissolve into space.
(c) They haunt the apartment.
(d) They get lost in the kitchen.

12. What does the girl do in her room in "Not For Sale"?
(a) Talks with her mother.
(b) Makes up stories.
(c) Writes poems.
(d) Sings songs.

13. In "From the Book of Dreams in Spanish", the girl eats all the fruit before it ends up where?
(a) In the sky.
(b) In her house.
(c) On the ground.
(d) On the tree.

14. In the grandmother's story in "The Witch's Husband", what does the wife do one night?
(a) She swims away.
(b) She flies away.
(c) She runs away.
(d) She gallops away.

15. Why does the girl leave her apartment in "Twist and Shout"?
(a) She was invited to a party.
(b) She forgot to get dinner.
(c) She can hear a party.
(d) She wanted to run away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What music does the girl always hear in "Twist and Shout"?

2. Why do the kids at school tease Eugene?

3. Who answers the door at the apartment the girl visits in "By Love Betrayed"?

4. Where did the girl's family come from?

5. In "Fever", what does the girl compare pain to?

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