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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 year does Chapter 10, "The Bombs Would Rain," take place?
(a) 2006.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1988.
(d) 2014.

2. What does Ana do instead of going to school?
(a) She cleans offices.
(b) She works as a nanny.
(c) She does drugs.
(d) She helps her mother work.

3. Why does Mario take from his stash of OxyContin?
(a) He cannot get Lortab.
(b) He has developed an addiction to Oxy.
(c) Jeanette wants to try it.
(d) He has been unable to sell the Oxy.

4. How long has Ana been in Irapuato, Mexico at the start of Chapter 7?
(a) 3 weeks.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 4 years.
(d) 10 years.

5. What did Jeanette tell Carmen about her father after he died?
(a) He hit on Mario.
(b) He had a drug habit.
(c) He sexually abused her.
(d) He was cheating on Carmen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carmen find inside of her neighbor's house at the end of Chapter 6?

2. What does Carmen tell Jeanette none of her guests know about?

3. Why does Jeanette decide to steal the book she found at Dolores's?

4. Who makes Jeanette feel like she is "some kind of savior" (11)?

5. Why does Mario lose his job at the pain clinic?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Jeanette learn from Carmen about why Cubans might hide their possessions within their walls?

3. What does Jeanette tell Carmen her problem is after she assures Jeanette that nobody knows about her "problems" (103)?

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

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

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

7. How did Dolores kill Daniel? Who knew about it but never said anything?

8. When Dolores discovers the missing copy of Les Miserables who does she blame? What does she say about the book? What assumption does Jeanette realize she made about Cubans?

9. When did Nancy give Gloria a raise in Chapter 7?

10. Why does Carmen want Jeanette to visit home so badly in Chapter 11? What does Jeanette say to Carmen about her relationship with Julio? How does Carmen respond?

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