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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What book did Caroline claim to read about the kinds of relationships that plagued Lizet's community?
2. What religion did Lizet's mother adopt for a few months and then bully her husband to convert?
3. When did the Mariel Boatlift occur?
4. Where did Dana say her Spanish teacher was from?
5. Where is Dana's father from?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Lourdes and Leidy react to seeing Lizet in Chapter 4?
2. Why does Lizet have resentment toward her father in the beginning of the novel?
3. What do Lizet and the young Latina woman on the shuttle have in common in Chapter 3?
4. What does Lizet decide to confront her father about in Chapter 14? Why?
5. What does attending Rawlings mean to Lizet?
6. How has Lizet skewed Omar's reality since she has been at Rawlings? Why?
7. Who is Jaquelin Medina? Where did Lizet meet her?
8. What are the two main timelines presented in the narrative and how are they established?
9. What does Lizet do with the young Latina woman's business card in Chapter 3? Why?
10. Who is Ariel Hernandez?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss the plot structure of Make Your Home Among Strangers. Where in the narrative does the exposition transition to rising action? Where does the climax occur? What information is related in the falling action and denouement?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the character of Ethan in the novel. How old is Ethan? What does his behavior toward Lizet suggest? How is Ethan different than the majority of the student body at Rawlings? How is he similar?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and discuss the narrative style in Make Your Home Among Strangers. From whose perspective is the story related? In what tense? How would the story change if it were related from a different perspective?
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