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

2. What is the maximum number of days a child is supposed to be detained?
(a) 7.
(b) 60.
(c) 14.
(d) 21.

3. Where and when does Chapter 2 take place?
(a) Miami, 2014.
(b) Camaguey, 1866.
(c) Cuba, 2016.
(d) Texas, 2002.

4. Where does Maria's mother work in Chapter 1?
(a) Sugarcane fields.
(b) Sewing factory.
(c) Cigar factory.
(d) A rich woman's house.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of party is Jeanette invited to in Chapter 4?

2. What did Jeanette keep in her purse, which Manny gave to her after asking if she liked it raw?

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

4. What does Antonio do for Maria each day at lunch after the war?

5. Who is Ana's father?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Jeanette's technique for trying to find someone to buy her and her friend cigarettes?

3. What do readers learn of Jeanette's relationship with Mario at the beginning of Chapter 2? How does he feel when she calls him?

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

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 see from her window at the start of Chapter 2? What does she know of her neighbor?

7. How did Jeanette end up with a condom in her purse when she was younger? Who gave it to her, and how did she feel when her mother found it?

8. In what country is Maria Isabel in Chapter 1? What year is it? What does she do for work?

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

10. What does Gloria tell Ana about her father?

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