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 Hudes sometimes do as temp work to pay her bills?

2. Who in Hudes's high school debate class only pretends to be from a working-class background?

3. What is the only language Hudes chooses in Chapter 22?

4. In Chapter 19, what influential book is published in Hudes's senior year of high school?

5. What does Hudes send in to Yale with her application?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 25, what does Hudes do for the first time that her family comes to support?

3. In Chapter 16, what happens to Vivi?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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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