View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has Jeanette been sober in Chapter 2?
(a) 6 days.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 6 years.
(d) 6 weeks.

2. What is the title of Chapter 2?
(a) Everything is Holding You Now.
(b) Nothing Can Stop You Now.
(c) Nobody Can Help You Now.
(d) Everyone is Holding You Back.

3. Where did Ana sleep the night before Jeanette saw her get dropped off at her mother's house?
(a) Her babysitter's house.
(b) Her father's house.
(c) Her teacher's house.
(d) Her aunt's house.

4. Why do Maria and Antonio meet workers in the sugarcane fields after he is escorted out of the factory?
(a) To read to them.
(b) To give them clothing.
(c) To help them find work.
(d) To feed them.

5. What happened to Gloria's brother six months after Ana was born?
(a) He finished college.
(b) His business was shuttered.
(c) He was granted U.S. citizenship.
(d) He was killed.

6. What does Jeanette do at the send of Chapter 4 when she decides to stop following Johnson?
(a) She hails a cab and goes home.
(b) She runs to a police station.
(c) She curls up on a bench.
(d) She calls her mother from a payphone.

7. What grade is Ana in when she arrives at the detention center with her mother?
(a) Second.
(b) Sixth.
(c) Kindergarten.
(d) Ninth.

8. What did a Christian missionary tell Gloria she was surprised by when she came to her village when she was young?
(a) How poor the education system was there.
(b) How well-spoken Gloria was.
(c) How happy Gloria seemed.
(d) How poor Gloria's family was.

9. What does Ana tell Jeanette when she asks about her mother?
(a) She says her mother has been taken by ICE.
(b) She says her mother has been killed.
(c) She says Ana's mother asked her to watch Ana until she gets home.
(d) She says her mother is in the hospital.

10. For how many days do Maria and her mother hide inside from the gunshots and fighting outside?
(a) 12.
(b) 4.
(c) 8.
(d) 21.

11. What does Antonio do at Maria's work in Chapter 1?
(a) He serves the workers food.
(b) He reads to the workers.
(c) He works alongside Maria.
(d) He is the foreman.

12. How old is Jeanette's neighbor's daughter in Chapter 2?
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 18.

13. What does Jeanette say her name is on the way to the party in Chapter 4?
(a) Caro.
(b) Laylah.
(c) Corrin.
(d) Sasha.

14. What DVD does Gloria watch early in the morning at the detention center?
(a) A horror movie.
(b) A National Geographic DVD.
(c) Her daughter's favorite Disney movie.
(d) A DVD of her daughter's school holiday concert.

15. What does Gloria call the smear of blood on her bed?
(a) Liberty.
(b) Ana.
(c) Motherhood.
(d) Jesus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the one thing Jeanette knows about the woman who lives across the street from her?

2. Where does Maria's mother work in Chapter 1?

3. Why was a woman and her daughter sent to isolation at the family detention center in Chapter 3?

4. Who takes Jeanette's neighbor away at the start of Chapter 2?

5. What does Gloria think of as "a constant calculation of what-if...I gave up" (61)?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 533 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample