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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who in Hudes's high school debate class only pretends to be from a working-class background?
(a) Henry.
(b) Richard.
(c) Ellen.
(d) Robin.

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

3. What does Hudes describe as Boricua potato chips?
(a) Crispy vegetables.
(b) Chocolate.
(c) Pork rinds.
(d) Ginny's pegao.

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

5. What book does Virginia leave on Hudes's piano bench in Chapter 18?
(a) Hiruto.
(b) Four New World Yoruba Rituals.
(c) Two if By Birds.
(d) Wonderland.

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

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

8. What do Hudes and her family always call Gabi?
(a) The Sweet Pea.
(b) The Honey.
(c) The Girl.
(d) The Baby.

9. Where does Hudes find a work-study job at Yale?
(a) The front desk at her dorm.
(b) The recording studio.
(c) The library.
(d) The cafeteria.

10. How does Tico die?
(a) From cancer.
(b) As a robbery victim.
(c) From an AIDS infection.
(d) In a car accident.

11. Who is one of the first fiction writers Hudes reads in her senior year English class?
(a) Flannery O'Connor.
(b) Mitchell Williams.
(c) James Joyce
(d) Ellen Barkin.

12. What does Sharon once tell Hudes she does not want to hear about at all?
(a) Hudes's preferences for food.
(b) Hudes's accomplisments.
(c) Hudes's mother or Gabi.
(d) Hudes's work.

13. What were Juan Perez's farm skills based on?
(a) Taino tradition.
(b) Western values.
(c) Helgery.
(d) His mother's instructions.

14. How many people are allowed in Yale seminars?
(a) 12.
(b) 20.
(c) 30.
(d) 15.

15. Who does Hudes use as an example to refute the myth of "welfare queens"?
(a) Abuela.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Nuchi.
(d) Flor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who had some reproductive problems and an ectopic pregnancy?

3. In Chapter 28, what do Hudes's Yale friends ask that makes her uncomfortable?

4. What happens to Hudes when she starts writing her essay about an author's use of the theme of fire?

5. What does Hudes discover about Gabi when Gabi is in first grade?

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