My Broken Language: A Memoir Test | Final Test - Hard

Quiara Alegría Hudes
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 106 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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My Broken Language: A Memoir Test | Final Test - Hard

Quiara Alegría Hudes
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 106 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 does Sharon serve for dessert in Chapter 22?

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

3. What does Sharon once tell Hudes she does not want to hear about at all?

4. What producer does Hudes record a demo for?

5. When did Puerto Rico become a U.S. territory?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 16, what happens to Vivi?

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

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

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

5. In Chapter 19, what do some of Hudes's classmates think of the book The Bell Curve?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why does Hudes's conversation with Sharon and her father about welfare and taxes leave such a bad and lasting impression on her? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Why is it so important for Hudes to know what her father thinks about religion when she is a child, and why does his answer open a rift between them? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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