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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 believes "the past only haunts you if you let it" (105)?
(a) Vanessa.
(b) Carmen.
(c) Mario.
(d) Jeanette.
2. What does Maydelis tell Jeanette about Yosmany?
(a) He is well-educated.
(b) He is classless.
(c) He is wealthy.
(d) He is a lady's man.
3. What happens to Carmen's neighbor five years after Carmen saw what was inside her house?
(a) She died and then her cats died.
(b) The panther mauled her.
(c) The lion killed her.
(d) The alligator attacked her.
4. How are Jeanette and Maydelis related?
(a) They are cousins.
(b) Maydelis is Jeanette's aunt.
(c) They are sisters.
(d) Jeanette is Maydelis's aunt.
5. What is Maydelis's husband's occupation?
(a) Salesman.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Chauffeur.
(d) Lawyer.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Jeanette tell her mother she needs money for, though she really gives it to Mario for pills?
2. From whose point of view is Chapter 9, "People Like That," written?
3. Which character's marriage is said to be "on life support" (118)?
4. What radio station does Daniel listen to in Chapter 10?
5. What word is used to describe the way Carmen feels when she thinks of her late husband?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Jeanette tell Carmen her problem is after she assures Jeanette that nobody knows about her "problems" (103)?
2. Describe Isabel's husband in Chapter 11?
3. When did Nancy give Gloria a raise in Chapter 7?
4. What does Carmen hear coming from her neighbor's house as she prepares for Thanksgiving? What does Carmen think of her neighbor?
5. What happens when Maydelis, Jeanette, and El Aleman stop in a poor town to buy rum? Why does El Aleman lock himself in the car?
6. How does Carmen feel about her family's conversation about Dolores and Maydelis and other family in Cuba?
7. Why did Daniel leave Dolores and the children at the start of Chapter 10? How did she feel about his departure?
8. How did Jeanette and Mario meet? Why did he move in with her?
9. How did Nancy treat Ana and Gloria when they first started working for her?
10. Why did Ana realize later that she could have gotten away with taking the money Nancy hid in the floorboard to pay for treatment?
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