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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was Jeanette smoking weed and hanging out at IHOP at the start of Chapter 4?
(a) Johnson.
(b) Lila.
(c) Sasha.
(d) Jameson.

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

4. What does Jeanette's mother think she should do about Ana?
(a) Track down her family.
(b) Let Carmen take care of her.
(c) Adopt her.
(d) Call the cops.

5. What type of bird does Gloria picture her daughter flying in through the window?
(a) Bald eagle.
(b) Burrowing parakeet.
(c) Turkey vulture.
(d) Hoatzin chick.

6. What drug does Jeanette try for the first time at the club in Chapter 4?
(a) Weed.
(b) Heroin.
(c) Ecstasy.
(d) Cocaine.

7. What does Maria think she hears at the end of the story?
(a) Gunshots.
(b) A cry for liberty.
(c) Antonio begging for his life.
(d) Someone saying, "We are force."

8. What does CFI stand for?
(a) Children's Fear Interview.
(b) Child Freedom Initiative.
(c) Community Freedom International.
(d) Credible Fear Interview.

9. What is the name of the man Jeanette is being intimate with at the start of Chapter 4?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Jameson.
(c) Jordan.
(d) Johnson.

10. Where is Jeanette's family from?
(a) Argentina.
(b) El Salvador.
(c) Cuba.
(d) Mexico.

11. What does it say on the form Gloria does not understand?
(a) Citizenship Approval.
(b) Voluntary Departure.
(c) Immediate Release Form.
(d) Involuntary Departure.

12. What do the detainees overhear guards saying, which makes them think they might be released sooner?
(a) There are too many detainees.
(b) Women and children will be released soon.
(c) Obama does not want to hold any children.
(d) Immigration laws are easing.

13. To whom is Carmen speaking in the preface of Of Women and Salt?
(a) Her granddaughter, Jeanette.
(b) Her daughter, Jeanette.
(c) Her aunt, Jeanette.
(d) Her mother, Jeanette.

14. Where does Maria Isabel work in Chapter 1?
(a) A sewing factory.
(b) A rich woman's house.
(c) A farm.
(d) A cigar factory.

15. What does a man in an office tell Gloria will happen if she signs the paper she does not understand?
(a) She will stay longer.
(b) She will be sent back to her home in Miami.
(c) She will be allowed to start a new life in Texas.
(d) She will get out sooner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carmen want Jeanette to do in the preface?

2. Who is Aurelia?

3. In Chapter 1, in what way does Maria Isabel's work impact her physically?

4. Where did Mario's father move to when he was young?

5. What does Jeanette see outside her window at the start of Chapter 2?

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