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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Hudes discover about Gabi when Gabi is in first grade?
(a) She is very angry.
(b) She might have diabetes.
(c) She struggles with reading.
(d) She has a speech impediment.

3. Who is one of Abeula's sisters in Aracibo?
(a) Noni.
(b) Nuchi.
(c) Vivi.
(d) Ramona.

4. In Chapter 19, what influential book is published in Hudes's senior year of high school?
(a) The Flingington.
(b) The Bell Curve.
(c) Superpredator.
(d) The Whipsaw.

5. What does Sharon serve for dessert in Chapter 22?
(a) Rice.
(b) Pudding.
(c) Microwaved Pepperidge Farm cake.
(d) Cookies.

6. In Chapter 18, who is Hudes's new sister?
(a) Riki.
(b) Gabi.
(c) Henri.
(d) Ellen.

7. In Chapter 23, what does Gabi admire about herself when she is 4 years old?
(a) Her round belly.
(b) Her eyes.
(c) Her hair.
(d) Her earrings.

8. In Chapter 28, what do Hudes's Yale friends ask that makes her uncomfortable?
(a) Whether she ever wants to get married.
(b) Whether she is straight.
(c) Whether she believes in God.
(d) If she cares about money at all.

9. When did Puerto Rico become a U.S. territory?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1898.

10. What high school did Hudes attend?
(a) Roosevelt High.
(b) Central High.
(c) Migra High.
(d) Hubert High.

11. How does Vivi speak differently in Chapter 16 to what Hudes remembers?
(a) She has a different accent.
(b) She does not seem to know as many words as she did before.
(c) She is softer.
(d) She is louder.

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

13. Whose piano recording blows Hudes away emotionally in Chapter 24?
(a) Elizabeth Parisot's.
(b) Harrison Clanson's.
(c) Richard Hendry's.
(d) Ellen Jameson's.

14. What kind of songs does Hudes play as a solo moonlighter?
(a) Dreamy broody rock songs.
(b) Death metal.
(c) Folk.
(d) Power balads.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is one of the first fiction writers Hudes reads in her senior year English class?

2. What arrives in Washington DC in October 1992?

3. Who in Hudes's debate class is actually from a working-class background?

4. What do Hudes and her family always call Gabi?

5. What kind of lessons does Hudes ask Abuela for?

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