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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. When does Lizet describe the weekly lab meetings that she helps her investigator run in Chapter 1?

2. Where was Lizet traveling home from for Thanksgiving in Chapter 2?

3. What religion did Lizet's mother adopt for a few months and then bully her husband to convert?

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

5. For whom did Lizet work when she managed her first lab at the institute?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Lizet decide to confront her father about in Chapter 14? Why?

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

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

5. What does the film Monty Python's Life of Brian signify in the novel?

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

7. How would you describe the narrative style of Make Your Home Among Strangers?

8. What does attending Rawlings mean to Lizet?

9. Who is Dante's father? Where is he?

10. What does Lizet's mother remark about Lizet's appearance at the airport in Chapter 15? What is Lizet's reaction?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Lizet's relationship with Omar in Make Your Home Among Strangers. For how long have they been seeing one another? In what ways is their relationship similar to Leidy's relationship with Roly? How is it different? Do you think that Omar is a protagonist or antagonist in the story? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss Lizet Ramirez as the protagonist of Make Your Home Among Strangers. How old is Lizet in the main storyline? What are her main objectives? How does Lizet's character evolve in the course of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the setting of Miami, Florida, and particularly the neighborhoods where Lourdes, Leidy, and Ricky live. Where are Lourdes's and Ricky's new homes in relation to the family home that was sold? Where is the Hernandez home? How do the settings in Miami differ from those at Rawlings?

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