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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. How does Vivi speak differently in Chapter 16 to what Hudes remembers?
(a) She does not seem to know as many words as she did before.
(b) She has a different accent.
(c) She is louder.
(d) She is softer.

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

3. What is another word that Hudes's family used to describe HIV/AIDS?
(a) The find.
(b) The curse.
(c) The plague.
(d) The bloodsickness.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What high school did Hudes attend?

2. What do Hudes and her family always call Gabi?

3. What producer does Hudes record a demo for?

4. What does Hudes tell her mother she is feeling in the end of Chapter 29?

5. What arrives in Washington DC in October 1992?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why do Abuela and her husband split up?

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

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

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