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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 work.
(b) Hudes's preferences for food.
(c) Hudes's accomplisments.
(d) Hudes's mother or Gabi.

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

3. What does Sharon serve for dessert in Chapter 22?
(a) Cookies.
(b) Rice.
(c) Microwaved Pepperidge Farm cake.
(d) Pudding.

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

5. What kind of songs does Hudes play as a solo moonlighter?
(a) Folk.
(b) Power balads.
(c) Death metal.
(d) Dreamy broody rock songs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What producer does Hudes record a demo for?

2. What is the only language Hudes chooses in Chapter 22?

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

4. What does Hudes describe as Boricua potato chips?

5. What does Hudes send in to Yale with her application?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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