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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "The Changeling", how did the girl hide her hair?
(a) In a tight bun.
(b) Under an army helmet.
(c) Under a wide brimmed hat.
(d) Under a dungaree.

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

3. Where does the narrator live?
(a) New York.
(b) Florida.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) California.

4. What country was liberated in "A Legion of Dark Angels"?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Guatamala.
(c) Puerto Rico.
(d) Cuba.

5. How does the girl's mother act with the shopkeeper in "An Early Mystery"?
(a) She compliments him.
(b) She argues with him.
(c) She is fearful of him.
(d) She ignores him.

6. In "Fever", what does the girl compare pain to?
(a) A set of blocks.
(b) A music box.
(c) A puppy.
(d) A rag doll.

7. In "Fever", when does the girl remember seeing her father?
(a) On Tuesdays and Thursdays.
(b) On Mondays and Wednesdays.
(c) On weekends.
(d) On Saturday nights.

8. What does the girl's father quote when he sees Fidel Castro on the television?
(a) A commercial.
(b) A poem.
(c) The Bible.
(d) A short story.

9. Where did Eugene move from?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Florida.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Georgia.

10. What is the girl's father doing in "The Lesson of the Sugarcane"?
(a) Making a tire swing.
(b) Selling repaired flat tires.
(c) Changing a flat tire.
(d) Testing new tires.

11. What type of music can be heard playing in the narrator's apartment building?
(a) Salsa.
(b) Opera.
(c) Latin.
(d) Rock.

12. Who is killed the day the girl has plans with Eugene?
(a) The president.
(b) The governor.
(c) The vice president.
(d) The mayor.

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) On the ground.
(c) In her house.
(d) On the tree.

14. In "An Early Mystery", what does the woman ask the girl?
(a) If she is her father's daughter.
(b) If she loves her mother.
(c) If she remembers the woman.
(d) If she is lost.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the girl slip away from Manny at the party?

2. What is the name of the salesman in "Not For Sale"?

3. What does the girl do in her room in "Not For Sale"?

4. What did Don Juan de Dios used to do for the girl in Puerto Rico?

5. In the grandmother's story in "The Witch's Husband", what does the wife do one night?

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