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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Hudes's mother leave her father?
(a) Her father has cheated on her.
(b) Her father has left her mother.
(c) Her father is ill.
(d) Her father has moved out of the country.

2. What does Sedo buy for Hudes?
(a) A car.
(b) A piano.
(c) A house.
(d) A drum.

3. What does Hudes's mother use the animals for?
(a) Company.
(b) Selling them as pets.
(c) Leverage over the neighbors.
(d) Sacrifices.

4. What animal does Hudes cry over when it dies?
(a) The snake.
(b) The chicken.
(c) The deer.
(d) The rabbit.

5. What is Hudes's father's attitude towards religion?
(a) He is a Muslim.
(b) He is a devout Catholic.
(c) He is a practicing Buddhist.
(d) He is an atheist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who runs the American Friends Service Committee?

2. What does Virginia bring to the kindergarten class three weeks into school?

3. Who is Flor's child that she hurts physically in Chapter 9?

4. What is one book Hudes reads in her freshman year of high school?

5. What kind of cousin does Hudes identify herself as, due to age differences?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what does Hudes's father say when she asks him if God is real?

2. How does Hudes eventually come to feel about Sedo?

3. In Chapter 10, what disease affects many of Hudes's family members that her family does not want to discuss?

4. How do the children treat Hudes in kindergarten in Malvern?

5. In Chapter 12, what does Hudes see her mother doing that unsettles her involving animals?

6. In Chapter 9, why is Flor absent from the celebration?

7. When did Virginia, Hudes's mother, have strange nightmares as a child?

8. In Chapter 13, what does Sedo buy for Hudes and how does it affect her?

9. In Chapter 12, what work does Hudes's mother do professionally?

10. What does Hudes's father sometimes do for a living?

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