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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. Who in Hudes's debate class is actually from a working-class background?

2. What high school did Hudes attend?

3. How does Hudes discover Nuchi cannot read?

4. What is a staple of Abuela's cooking?

5. How does Tico die?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 29, what does Hudes pursue after college?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Hudes describe her neighborhood in West Philadelphia? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

How does Hudes feel about her stepmother Sharon when she and Hudes's father marry, and how do her feelings towards Sharon change over the course of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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