View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does the girl feel about living in the city?
(a) She doesn't really care.
(b) She loves it.
(c) She makes fun of it.
(d) She hates it.

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

5. In "Fever", where does the girl remember her mother eating dinner?
(a) In the dining room.
(b) In her bedroom.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) On the couch.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the girl watch out her bedroom window in "American History"?

3. What does the girl see at Juan de Dios's funeral that makes her run out?

4. In "The Lesson of the Sugarcane", what does the girl's mother want her to smell?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Lorraine catches the girl in "The Paterson Public Library"?

2. How did the girl feel about her visit to the shop in "An Early Mystery"?

3. In "5:00 A.M.: Writing as Ritual", how does the author help change her life?

4. Why is the salesman never allowed back in the girl's home in "Not For Sale"?

5. In "The Lesson of the Sugarcane", why does the girl feel she was taken to the car?

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

7. What does Paciencia do during the night in "Paciencia"?

8. How does the girl describe life in her apartment building?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 645 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample