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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 book does Virginia leave on Hudes's piano bench in Chapter 18?
(a) Two if By Birds.
(b) Wonderland.
(c) Four New World Yoruba Rituals.
(d) Hiruto.

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

3. Why did Abuela move to Philadelphia?
(a) Her mother was living there.
(b) For a new romantic partner.
(c) After a terrible robbery in New York.
(d) For a new job.

4. Who is one of the first fiction writers Hudes reads in her senior year English class?
(a) Flannery O'Connor.
(b) Ellen Barkin.
(c) Mitchell Williams.
(d) James Joyce

5. Who does Hudes use as an example to refute the myth of "welfare queens"?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Nuchi.
(c) Flor.
(d) Abuela.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tico die?

2. In Chapter 18, who is Hudes's new sister?

3. What happens to Hudes when she starts writing her essay about an author's use of the theme of fire?

4. What drink does Hudes always remember her father giving her during a conversation that enrages her in Chapter 23?

5. What does the record producer tell Hudes about her sound after Hudes records the demo for him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 19, why does Hudes get so upset in debate class?

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

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

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

7. In Chapter 17, why does Hudes ask Abuela for cooking lessons?

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

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

10. In Chapter 16, what happens to Vivi?

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