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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. Where did Leidy work when Lizet visited her family in Chapter 5?
(a) A bakery.
(b) A hair salon.
(c) A public library.
(d) A junior high school.

2. What story did Lizet make up to tell her mother and sister after she arrived home in Chapter 4?
(a) That there was a prostitute in the next room of her hotel.
(b) That Omar had called and proposed to her over the telephone.
(c) That she was going to graduate school in Chicago.
(d) That Dante had called to break up with her.

3. What is the name of the female dean at Lizet's hearing in Chapter 11?
(a) Dean Lumet.
(b) Dean Smith.
(c) Dean Geller.
(d) Dean Johnson.

4. What is the name of Lizet's baby nephew?
(a) Dante.
(b) Ethan.
(c) Ariel.
(d) Omar.

5. What was the favorite meal of Lizet's that her mother made for her during her Thanksgiving visit?
(a) Bistec palomilla.
(b) Arroz con pollo.
(c) Ropa vieja.
(d) Vaca frita.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much weight did Lizet lose in the first fall at college?

2. At Lizet's college, there is said to be a brain within the brain collection that is from a serial killer and is larger than whose brain?

3. For how long had Lizet lived in her mother's apartment before she left for college?

4. At what diner did Jillian spend her nights studying before due dates?

5. Where did Lizet end up having to spend the night because her connecting flight was overbooked in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Lizet skewed Omar's reality since she has been at Rawlings? Why?

2. How do Lourdes and Leidy react to seeing Lizet in Chapter 4?

3. What do Lizet and the young Latina woman on the shuttle have in common in Chapter 3?

4. How did Lizet's parents respond when she told them she was admitted to college?

5. How is Ricky's behavior different than Lourdes's behavior toward Lizet during Lizet's visit home for the holidays?

6. What does Lizet remark about the canal by her childhood home in Chapter 1?

7. Why does Lizet have resentment toward her father in the beginning of the novel?

8. What does Lizet think of when driving past her childhood home in Chapter 18?

9. What are the two main timelines presented in the narrative and how are they established?

10. How is Lizet's first ice-skating experience described?

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