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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who takes Jeanette's neighbor away at the start of Chapter 2?
(a) Gang members.
(b) The neighbor's boyfriend.
(c) ICE officers.
(d) Narcotics officers.

2. What does Carmen want Jeanette to do in the preface?
(a) Move back home.
(b) Get sober.
(c) Go to college.
(d) Get a job.

3. What were Jeanette and her friend looking for when they went to the gas station?
(a) Someone to pay for their pancakes.
(b) Someone to pay for their gas.
(c) Someone to buy them beer.
(d) Someone to buy them cigarettes.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of bird does Gloria picture her daughter flying in through the window?

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

3. What does Ana tell Jeanette when she asks about her mother?

4. Who goes to look for Antonio at the end of Chapter 1 after Maria gives birth?

5. What does Portenos accuse Antonio of when he reads a letter from Victor Hugo to Emilia Casanova de Villaverde?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is Gloria at the start of Chapter 3? What noises can be heard in the middle of the night sometimes?

2. Why does Johnson not want to call the cops when they find the dead body? What do they do after?

3. What type of love did Jeanette's sponsor say was the only kind she knew what to do with?

4. What does Johnson say and do when Jeanette asks him to buy her cigarettes?

5. Who is Carmen speaking to in the Preface? What is she asking of her? How does she try to convince her?

6. What does Jeanette do when she sees Ana get dropped off at her house? What does she learn about Ana?

7. What does Antonio read about cigar factory workers in La Aurora at the start of Chapter 1? What does Antonio say this means?

8. How does Maria Isabel feel about getting married?

9. What does Gloria tell Ana about her father?

10. Why did a detainee hide food for her daughter? What happened as a result?

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