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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 Tico die?
(a) As a robbery victim.
(b) From cancer.
(c) In a car accident.
(d) From an AIDS infection.

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

3. What is important about a cooking pot, according to Hudes's mother?
(a) How you place it on the heat.
(b) How you cure it.
(c) How you bless it.
(d) How you clean it.

4. Who does the record producer compare Hudes's sound to?
(a) Carole King's.
(b) Shakira's.
(c) Emmylou Harris's.
(d) Taylor Swift's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hudes sometimes do as temp work to pay her bills?

2. What kind of coffee does Hudes often drink with Abuela?

3. What producer does Hudes record a demo for?

4. What is the first play that Hudes writes?

5. What high school did Hudes attend?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 23, how does Hudes feel about going to Yale?

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

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

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

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

6. Why do Abuela and her husband split up?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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