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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. What does Virginia bring to the kindergarten class three weeks into school?
(a) Burgers.
(b) Cake.
(c) A parade float.
(d) A snake.

2. In Chapter 5, what do Hudes and Simon count together?
(a) Moles.
(b) Farms.
(c) Songs.
(d) Bee stings.

3. What is Hudes's father's ancestry?
(a) Russian.
(b) Jewish.
(c) African.
(d) Puerto Rican.

4. In Chapter 5, who is Hudes's English cousin who comes to visit?
(a) John.
(b) Simon.
(c) David.
(d) Henry.

5. What is Virginia's mother's first name?
(a) Obdulia.
(b) Frani.
(c) Orisha.
(d) Hiti.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who begins to teach Hudes how to play piano?

2. In the end of Chapter 13, what does Hudes think of as yet another new language?

3. How long does Virginia work at CHOICE?

4. What do Hudes's cousins call her as a nickname?

5. In Chapter 1, where does Hudes's family move?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 6, what does Hudes's father ask her that she knows he is not really serious about?

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

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

4. What happens when Hudes gets her first period?

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

6. In Chapter 12, what does Hudes witness her mother doing with Padrino Julio?

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

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

9. In Chapter 13, how do Sedo's children treat Virginia?

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

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