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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. How does the girl treat her father in "Dividir: To Divide"?
(a) She doesn't let him do anything for her.
(b) She doesn't let him back in the apartment.
(c) She argues with him daily.
(d) She tries to provide support for him.

2. In "Absolution in the New Year", what does the girl's mother offer to console her?
(a) A hug.
(b) Money.
(c) Tea.
(d) Water.

3. What animal will watch the grave in "Volar: To Fly"?
(a) A cat.
(b) A mouse.
(c) An eagle.
(d) A sparrow.

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

5. What did the girl talk about when she was dressed up in "The Changeling"?
(a) Tales of feasts and festivities.
(b) Tales of battles and brotherhood.
(c) Tales of wars and wonders.
(d) Tales of parties and pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the girl notice about the type of voice her mother uses with the shopkeeper in "An Early Mystery"?

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

3. Where does the girl sometimes sleep in "Fever"?

4. Where did the girl's father read her diary?

5. In "From the Book of Dreams in Spanish", the girl eats all the fruit before it ends up where?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the girl describe her father in "Fever"?

2. In "Unspoken", what does the mother want to tell her daughter?

3. How does the library in "The Paterson Public Library" compare to the city it is in?

4. When the woman in "Advanced Biology" thinks back to Ira, what does she wonder?

5. After Manuel's death what does Corazon decide to do?

6. In "The Story of My Body", how does the girl re-tell her infancy?

7. What happens the night the old man sees a dolphin in "Letter from a Caribbean Island"?

8. What happens when the chameleon looks at the narrator?

9. What happens at Juan de Dios's funeral?

10. How do the husband and wife mark time in "Anniversary"?

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