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

2. In Chapter 21, what does Hudes eventually regret correcting her mother about?
(a) Her color-blindness.
(b) Her math.
(c) Her singing.
(d) Her English pronunciation.

3. Where is Hudes's first play produced?
(a) Chicago.
(b) The Bell Box Theater.
(c) Yale.
(d) The Richardson Theater.

4. Who is one of Abeula's sisters in Aracibo?
(a) Noni.
(b) Ramona.
(c) Nuchi.
(d) Vivi.

5. What does Virginia often begin doing in Chapter 18 for Hudes?
(a) Leaving her books to read.
(b) Singing to her.
(c) Lying to her.
(d) Filling out forms for her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What essay contest does Hudes win in high school?

2. What does Sharon serve for dessert in Chapter 22?

3. What is important about a cooking pot, according to Hudes's mother?

4. Which relative had once been a promising athlete?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 23, how does Hudes feel about going to Yale?

2. In Chapter 16, what happens to Hudes's high school AIDS quilt after her class leaves?

3. Why does Hudes eventually decide to stop pursuing music as a career?

4. In Chapter 23, what secret does Hudes tell Gabi that she has told no one else?

5. In Chapter 18, what happens during an English class essay Hudes writes?

6. In Chapter 25, what does Hudes do for the first time that her family comes to support?

7. Why do Abuela and her husband split up?

8. How are gay people viewed and treated in the barrio?

9. In Chapter 19, what do some of Hudes's classmates think of the book The Bell Curve?

10. In Chapter 23, what does Gabi think about her own chubby body?

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