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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 does Dolores tell Jeanette she cannot trust after Yosmany offers to let her ride his horse?
(a) Young men.
(b) White men.
(c) Poor men.
(d) Black men.

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

3. What does Maydelis tell Jeanette about Yosmany?
(a) He is well-educated.
(b) He is classless.
(c) He is a lady's man.
(d) He is wealthy.

4. Why does Mario lose his job at the pain clinic?
(a) He stops showing up.
(b) He is always high.
(c) He is caught stealing pills.
(d) He is always late.

5. How old is Ana at the start of Chapter 7?
(a) 18.
(b) 8.
(c) 4.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Daniel do on the first day he leaves to fight?

2. Why was Mario kicked out of his sober living facility?

3. Why does Jeanette leave the dinner party early in Chapter 6?

4. Who told Jeanette women always need to have "presencia" (174)?

5. Whose men does Dolores fear will come to her home at night and make her dig her own grave?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Isabel's husband in Chapter 11?

2. 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?

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

4. How did Jeanette and Mario meet? Why did he move in with her?

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. When did Jeanette tell her mother that her father abused her? How did Carmen feel about the fact that Jeanette did not tell her right away?

7. Why is there a Les Miserables book on the bookshelf at Dolores's house? What does Maydelis tell Jeanette about the book? Why does Jeanette take it?

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

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

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

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