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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III: The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness, Pages 221-274.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which poetry club member is extremely quiet, according to Xiomara?
(a) Isabelle.
(b) Chris.
(c) Stephan.
(d) Ella.

2. What behavior of Xiomara's does Caridad often correct?
(a) Her blasphemous statements.
(b) Her lying.
(c) Her cursing.
(d) Her incorrect use of grammar.

3. In what month does the novel The Poet X begin?
(a) October.
(b) December.
(c) June.
(d) August.

4. How does Xiomara say she feels all day on Thanksgiving?
(a) Hollow.
(b) Miserable.
(c) Out of breath.
(d) Sick.

5. The poem on page 232 is entitled "My Heart is a" what?
(a) Cup.
(b) Hand.
(c) Bowl.
(d) Faucet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective does Xiomara use to describe her "friendship" (95) with Aman?

2. Mami says that the nuns and priests at her Catholic school had known "how to elicit true" (17) what?

3. Whose "old romantic rap videos" (212) does Aman send to Xiomara when she feels down?

4. What location does Xiomara describe as "a place of freedom" (247)?

5. Mami says that she had been on a journey toward what when she had instead married Papi?

(see the answer key)

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