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

Quiara Alegría Hudes
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My Broken Language: A Memoir Test | Final Test - Hard

Quiara Alegría Hudes
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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 is Hudes's mother disturbed that an actor on stage in her play is doing?

2. How does Tico die?

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

4. What happens to Hudes when she starts writing her essay about an author's use of the theme of fire?

5. What is Abuela suspicious of regarding Hudes in Chapter 17?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 24, what does Hudes think of her first music classes at Yale?

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

3. In Chapter 17, why does Hudes ask Abuela for cooking lessons?

4. In Chapter 26, what does Flor say when she returns to the family?

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

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

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

8. In Chapter 30, what does Hudes's mother encourage her to do professionally and why?

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

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

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

What are some of the Sanchez family's experiences with drug addiction like? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Hudes titled her memoir My Broken Language, and when does the reader realize the significance of the title? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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