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

2. What does Hudes describe as Boricua potato chips?
(a) Pork rinds.
(b) Crispy vegetables.
(c) Ginny's pegao.
(d) Chocolate.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What producer does Hudes record a demo for?

2. Who is one of Abeula's sisters in Aracibo?

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

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

5. What does Hudes copy for Wynton Marsalis at one point?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 16, what happens to Vivi?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why do Abuela and her husband split up?

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