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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the main library Hudes uses at Yale?
(a) Gingerson.
(b) Heights.
(c) Sterling.
(d) Rivley.

3. What kind of lessons does Hudes ask Abuela for?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Music.
(c) Cooking.
(d) Reading.

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

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

6. What does Hudes copy for Wynton Marsalis at one point?
(a) Vocal charts.
(b) Demo tapes.
(c) Diary pages.
(d) Yard signs.

7. What drink does Hudes always remember her father giving her during a conversation that enrages her in Chapter 23?
(a) Coke with ice in it.
(b) Wine.
(c) Lemonade.
(d) Whisky.

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

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

10. Who plays the babalao in Hudes's play?
(a) Baxter James.
(b) Felix Torres.
(c) Helen Richardson.
(d) Richard Wright.

11. What is Abuela suspicious of regarding Hudes in Chapter 17?
(a) Her intentions with asking for music lessons.
(b) Her health.
(c) Her schooling.
(d) Her grasp of Spanish.

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

13. What is important about a cooking pot, according to Hudes's mother?
(a) How you cure it.
(b) How you clean it.
(c) How you place it on the heat.
(d) How you bless it.

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

15. What does Hudes sometimes do as temp work to pay her bills?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Law clerking.
(c) Accounting.
(d) Typing and office jobs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hudes's mother tell her she always though Hudes would do for a living?

2. Who in Hudes's high school debate class only pretends to be from a working-class background?

3. What is the first play that Hudes writes?

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

5. What arrives in Washington DC in October 1992?

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