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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 does Xiomara begin to do with her communion wafer after she acquiesces to Mami's demands to take communion, yet removes the wafer before getting back to her seat?
(a) Slide it under her pew.
(b) Place it into Xavier's hand.
(c) Slide it between the pages of the church bulletin.
(d) Slide it between the pages of her Bible.

2. Father Sean tells Xiomara that "Catholicism invites" (123) what?
(a) Criticism.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Doubt.
(d) Self-criticism.

3. Father Sean tells Xiomara that maybe she "should have a conversation with" (123) whom?
(a) Xavier.
(b) Caridad.
(c) Papi.
(d) Mami.

4. For what former vice is Papi well-known in the family's neighborhood?
(a) Promiscuity.
(b) Smoking cigars.
(c) Having a gambling problem.
(d) Having a problem with alcohol.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Xiomara name as the only male she will "ever love" (97)?

2. In what area of New York City does Xiomara wish to live down the street from Xavier after she settles down?

3. What scent does Xiomara sometimes detect on Aman's sweater?

4. When Mami had become pregnant, the whole neighborhood had feared what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss evidence that points to the conclusion that Xiomara is becoming more practiced at deception.

2. Describe Xiomara's reaction to the video shown by Ms. Galiano in English class.

3. What metaphor is used in "Catching Feelings" (105) to portray Xiomara's growing feelings of infatuation?

4. What simile does Xiomara use in order to describe the arrival of October?

5. Discuss the irony present in the scene when Mami returns home to find Xavier crying and blames Xiomara.

6. What comment of Father Sean's causes Xiomara to launch into a tirade about the Bible during confirmation class?

7. What does Xiomara mean when she states that Xavier is a bad Dominican?

8. In what way is Xiomara's feeling of repression within the church linked to her feelings of repression as a Latina woman?

9. How is foreshadowing used within the poem "About a Twin" (103)?

10. What does Mami see as the main shortcoming of parenting in the United States?

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