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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. Who is Hudes's father's new wife?
(a) Ellen.
(b) Jennifer.
(c) Janet.
(d) Sharon.

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

3. What does Hudes sense her mother would like for her to experience as a child?
(a) Riding a bicycle.
(b) Swimming.
(c) Church.
(d) Visions.

4. How does Virginia think Big Vic might have contracted HIV?
(a) From caregiving for his father, who also had HIV.
(b) From having unprotected sex.
(c) From needles.
(d) From a blood transfusion.

5. Where does Hudes travel with Virginia in Chapter 12 for the first time?
(a) Arizona.
(b) Chicago.
(c) California.
(d) South Dakota.

Short Answer Questions

1. What cigarettes does Hudes's father mostly smoke?

2. In Chapter 5, what do Hudes and Simon count together?

3. How does Mary Lou die?

4. Whose death does Virginia predict as a young child?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 6, how does Hudes spend her father's wedding?

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

3. In Chapter 14, what does Hudes learn in Puerto Rico?

4. In Chapter 5, what happens when Simon comes to visit?

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

6. In Chapter 1, how does Hudes feel when leaving West Philly as a very young girl?

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

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

9. What does Hudes's mother do to try to help her her teenage depression?

10. How do strangers often react when they see Hudes and her mother together?

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