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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 the record producer tell Hudes about her sound after Hudes records the demo for him?
(a) She is going to be a star.
(b) She is not good enough - by a long shot - to be a successful professional musician.
(c) He never gets back to her.
(d) She is almost good enough, but not quite good enough, to really be successful.

2. When did Puerto Rico become a U.S. territory?
(a) 1898.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1900.
(d) 1950.

3. What is a staple of Abuela's cooking?
(a) Beef.
(b) Rice.
(c) Cilantro.
(d) Lamb.

4. Who reappears Thanksgiving of Hudes's senior year of college?
(a) Abuela.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Nuchi.
(d) Flor.

5. Where does Hudes find a work-study job at Yale?
(a) The cafeteria.
(b) The recording studio.
(c) The front desk at her dorm.
(d) The library.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hudes hate to leave behind in going to Yale?

2. What does Abuela always want to be wearing when Hudes comes to visit?

3. How many people are allowed in Yale seminars?

4. Who in Hudes's high school debate class only pretends to be from a working-class background?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Titi Ginny never have her chance to compete as an athelete?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why do Abuela and her husband split up?

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