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

2. What does Antonio do for Maria each day at lunch after the war?
(a) Massages her feet.
(b) Teaches her to read.
(c) Sings to her.
(d) Cooks for her.

3. Who does Jeanette call after seeing her neighbor taken away at the start of Chapter 2?
(a) Mario.
(b) Her sponsor.
(c) The police.
(d) Her mother.

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

5. What does Maria name her daughter at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) Amelia.
(b) Cecilia.
(c) Emilia.
(d) Aurelia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Gloria decide to leave El Salvador?

3. What does Jeanette drink at the club in Chapter 4?

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

5. What does it say on the form Gloria does not understand?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What does Jeanette's mother think about Ana staying with her? What does she think Jeanette should do?

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

5. Who is Don Geronimo? Why did Maria hide Antonio's gifts from him?

6. What does Gloria tell Ana about her father?

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

8. While watching a National Geographic DVD, what bird does Gloria imagine coming to her in the detention center and how?

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

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

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