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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. Why do they have to walk ten minutes to find a phone after the car breaks down?
(a) They do not have cell service where they are.
(b) Nobody near the car will speak to them.
(c) It is the only phone in town.
(d) Nobody around will let them use their phone.

2. Where are Jeanette and Maydelis at the start of Chapter 9?
(a) Jeanette's apartment.
(b) Dolores's house.
(c) Maydelis's house.
(d) The beach.

3. How old is Carmen when her mother begins letting her drink espresso?
(a) 12.
(b) 18.
(c) 7.
(d) 16.

4. What word is used to describe the way Carmen feels when she thinks of her late husband?
(a) Miserable.
(b) Desperate.
(c) Ill.
(d) Nostalgic.

5. From whose point of view is Chapter 9, "People Like That," written?
(a) Carmen.
(b) Dolores.
(c) Jeanette.
(d) Maydelis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Yosmany remind Jeanette of?

2. How old is Ana at the start of Chapter 7?

3. What does Jeanette begin to notice about Isabel when she visits the beauty counter?

4. Who is Yosmany?

5. What does Maydelis tell Jeanette about Yosmany?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mario make extra money in Chapter 11?

2. Who is Reinaldo? How does he help Maydelis and Jeanette in Chapter 8?

3. Who is Yosmany? How do Jeanette's views of him differ from Dolores and Maydelis?

4. In what ways does Jeanette try to prove to Mario that she is not like other girls in Chapter 11?

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. What does Carmen hear coming from her neighbor's house as she prepares for Thanksgiving? What does Carmen think of her neighbor?

7. Who is Mario? How is Carmen feeling about having him over for Thanksgiving?

8. Why did Dolores hide money in the mattress and hide her Les Miserables book in the walls in Chapter 10?

9. Why did Ana realize later that she could have gotten away with taking the money Nancy hid in the floorboard to pay for treatment?

10. How does Carmen feel about her family's conversation about Dolores and Maydelis and other family in Cuba?

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