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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hudes look different from her mother?

2. What is Sedo's given name?

3. What does Sharon tell Hudes on the day of her wedding to her father?

4. What is Hudes's mother's maiden name?

5. What issues does Virginia mobilize around in her activism?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 10, what disease affects many of Hudes's family members that her family does not want to discuss?

2. In Chapter 1, how does Hudes feel when leaving West Philly as a very young girl?

3. In Chapter 2, what kind of garden does Hudes's mother plant?

4. In Chapter 2, what does Virginia tell a young Hudes about her own youth?

5. In Chapter 6, what does Hudes's father ask her that she knows he is not really serious about?

6. In Chapter 12, what does Hudes see her mother doing that unsettles her involving animals?

7. In Chapter 6, how does Hudes spend her father's wedding?

8. What are Hudes's memories of Mary Lou?

9. What happens to Mary Lou in Chapter 10?

10. In Chapter 14, what does Hudes learn in Puerto Rico?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Virginia Sanchez's activism affect Hudes's own life path and perceptions of feminism? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does Hudes react when some older writers express surprise and even skepticism that she is writing with such frankness about her Puerto Rican family and their traditions? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How does Hudes describe her trance-like experiences while writing? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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