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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 send in to Yale with her application?
(a) Three piano preludes she wrote.
(b) A tape of her singing.
(c) A piece of jewelry she made.
(d) Her first movie script.

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

3. What were Juan Perez's farm skills based on?
(a) Western values.
(b) Taino tradition.
(c) His mother's instructions.
(d) Helgery.

4. What is the only language Hudes chooses in Chapter 22?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Music.
(c) Sign language.
(d) English.

5. In Chapter 23, what does Gabi admire about herself when she is 4 years old?
(a) Her hair.
(b) Her eyes.
(c) Her round belly.
(d) Her earrings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Virginia often begin doing in Chapter 18 for Hudes?

2. In Chapter 19, what influential book is published in Hudes's senior year of high school?

3. Who hosts the after-party for Hudes's play?

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

5. Where does Hudes find a work-study job at Yale?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 18, what big change happens in Hudes's family?

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

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

5. Why do Abuela and her husband split up?

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

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

8. In Chapter 25, what does Hudes spend the summer after her first year of college doing?

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

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

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