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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. What disease claims the lives of many of Hudes's relatives?

2. How does Hudes look different from her mother?

3. What is surprising to Hudes about the turtle?

4. What does Virginia bring to the kindergarten class three weeks into school?

5. How does Virginia think Big Vic might have contracted HIV?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 9, why is Flor absent from the celebration?

2. How do strangers often react when they see Hudes and her mother together?

3. What happens when Hudes gets her first period?

4. In Chapter 13, what does Sedo buy for Hudes and how does it affect her?

5. In Chapter 3, what does Hudes's father say when she asks him if God is real?

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

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

8. In Chapter 6, what does Sharon tell Hudes on the day of the wedding?

9. In Chapter 12, what work does Hudes's mother do professionally?

10. How does Hudes eventually come to feel about Sedo?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Hudes's perception of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and its impact on her family? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does Hudes's family react to her first plays, and why is their reaction so important to Hudes? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Virginia Sanchez, Hudes's mother, believe she may have supernatural abilities or gifts of so-called "second sight"? What does Hudes think of these assertions? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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