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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) Vocal charts.
(c) Diary pages.
(d) Demo tapes.

2. What arrives in Washington DC in October 1992?
(a) The AIDS Quilt.
(b) A space ship.
(c) The first Latino president.
(d) The Duchamps Installation.

3. Where did Abuela first settle in the U.S.?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Chicago.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) The Bronx.

4. How does Hudes discover Nuchi cannot read?
(a) When Nuchi's daughter tells her.
(b) After Nuchi dies.
(c) When Nuchi needs help with medicine.
(d) When the two are dying Nuchi's hair together.

5. In Chapter 18, who is Hudes's new sister?
(a) Riki.
(b) Gabi.
(c) Ellen.
(d) Henri.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first play that Hudes writes?

2. How does Hudes usually get to visit her father and Sharon?

3. What book does Vivi tell Hudes she needs to read?

4. What is the only language Hudes chooses in Chapter 22?

5. Whose piano recording blows Hudes away emotionally in Chapter 24?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 24, what does Hudes think of her first music classes at Yale?

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

3. In Chapter 27, why does Hudes think of Nuchi so often?

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

5. In Chapter 21, what does Hudes once do with her mother's language that she now regrets?

6. Why does Abuela move her family from New York to Philadelphia?

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

8. In Chapter 30, what does Hudes's mother encourage her to do professionally and why?

9. In Chapter 26, what does Flor say when she returns to the family?

10. In Chapter 16, what happens to Vivi?

(see the answer keys)

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