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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 Sharon once tell Hudes she does not want to hear about at all?
(a) Hudes's accomplisments.
(b) Hudes's mother or Gabi.
(c) Hudes's work.
(d) Hudes's preferences for food.

2. Who in Hudes's debate class is actually from a working-class background?
(a) Richard.
(b) Henry.
(c) Pete.
(d) Ellen.

3. What does Hudes discover about Gabi when Gabi is in first grade?
(a) She might have diabetes.
(b) She is very angry.
(c) She struggles with reading.
(d) She has a speech impediment.

4. What kind of lessons does Hudes ask Abuela for?
(a) Reading.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Music.
(d) Cooking.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 21, what does Hudes eventually regret correcting her mother about?

2. What happens to Vivi in Chapter 16?

3. Where is Hudes's first play produced?

4. In Chapter 28, what do Hudes's Yale friends ask that makes her uncomfortable?

5. What were Juan Perez's farm skills based on?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Abuela win over even the cops after moving to America?

4. In Chapter 29, what does Hudes pursue after college?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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