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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the record producer tell Hudes about her sound after Hudes records the demo for him?
(a) She is almost good enough, but not quite good enough, to really be successful.
(b) She is not good enough - by a long shot - to be a successful professional musician.
(c) He never gets back to her.
(d) She is going to be a star.

2. What secret does Hudes tell Gabi before she tells anyone else in Chapter 23?
(a) She likes a boy.
(b) She is moving out.
(c) She is sick.
(d) She is pregnant.

3. What producer does Hudes record a demo for?
(a) Tayor Kingsley.
(b) Richard Hoover.
(c) Larry Gold.
(d) Henry Simpson.

4. Who does the record producer compare Hudes's sound to?
(a) Emmylou Harris's.
(b) Taylor Swift's.
(c) Carole King's.
(d) Shakira's.

5. What does Hudes send in to Yale with her application?
(a) A tape of her singing.
(b) A piece of jewelry she made.
(c) Her first movie script.
(d) Three piano preludes she wrote.

6. What is Hudes's mother disturbed that an actor on stage in her play is doing?
(a) Singing a sacred song.
(b) The coconut divination.
(c) Getting naked.
(d) Killing a snake.

7. Who eats a lot, like Hudes, in her family in Chapter 16?
(a) Vivi.
(b) Tico.
(c) Cuca.
(d) Nuchi.

8. What does Hudes tell her mother she is feeling in the end of Chapter 29?
(a) Bored.
(b) Euphoric.
(c) Angry.
(d) Depressed.

9. Why did Abuela move to Philadelphia?
(a) Her mother was living there.
(b) After a terrible robbery in New York.
(c) For a new romantic partner.
(d) For a new job.

10. What group does Hudes become president of in high school?
(a) PEACH.
(b) FRIEND.
(c) MADD.
(d) WREN.

11. What did Tona do in New York to make a living?
(a) Drove a cab.
(b) Cooked at a restaurant.
(c) Sang.
(d) Completed tax returns.

12. What essay contest does Hudes win in high school?
(a) Newsweek's essay contest.
(b) The Philadelphia Inquirer's student essay contest.
(c) The Philadelphia Art Museums's essay contest.
(d) Rorington's essay contest.

13. Who reappears Thanksgiving of Hudes's senior year of college?
(a) Nuchi.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Abuela.
(d) Flor.

14. Where did Abuela first settle in the U.S.?
(a) The Bronx.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Atlanta.

15. In Chapter 21, what does Hudes eventually regret correcting her mother about?
(a) Her singing.
(b) Her math.
(c) Her color-blindness.
(d) Her English pronunciation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of songs does Hudes play as a solo moonlighter?

2. When did Puerto Rico become a U.S. territory?

3. What is another word that Hudes's family used to describe HIV/AIDS?

4. When did Obdulia Perez first bring her daughters to the Bronx?

5. In Chapter 23, what does Gabi admire about herself when she is 4 years old?

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