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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 is distinctive about the poem entitled "A Poem Mami Will Never Read" (233)?
(a) The poem rhymes.
(b) The poem creates the shape of a question mark.
(c) The entire poem is in Spanish.
(d) The poem is half in Spanish and half in English.

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

3. What is the name of Xavier's boyfriend?
(a) Gabriel.
(b) Cody.
(c) Jeffrey.
(d) Chris.

4. What element does Xiomara NOT name as something she would miss desperately if she were to leave?
(a) Aman.
(b) English class.
(c) Caridad.
(d) Xavier.

5. To whose Halloween party does Aman invite Xiomara?
(a) Dylan's.
(b) Steve's.
(c) Carl's.
(d) Reuben's.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what activity is Xiomara engaging when her mother spots her on the train?

2. Xiomara is expecting to earn what grade on Assignment 4 about freedom?

3. For what transgression does Xiomara break up with Aman?

4. On Xiomara's first visit to poetry club, how many students are at the meeting, including Xiomara?

5. What is the name of the young woman whom Xiomara eventually befriends in poetry club?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does the theme of appearance versus reality appear within Xiomara's fight with Mami about Aman?

2. How does Xavier keep his parents from finding out about Cody, though he has been crying about the break-up for days?

3. What rare emotion does Xiomara say she experiences upon receiving a compliment from Ms. Galiano?

4. Discuss Xiomara's use of personification in the poem entitled "Silent World" (223).

5. How does the theme of deception appear within the relationship between Xiomara and Caridad?

6. For what purpose does Xiomara use the metaphor of a balloon to describe her feelings when she sees Cody?

7. Discuss the humanist messages present within the short poem entitled "Wants" (146).

8. What is on the list of prohibited behaviors Xiomara includes in the poem entitled "What I Don't Tell Aman" (148)?

9. What is the cause of Xavier's emotional breakdown within the narrative?

10. What event causes Xiomara to break up with Aman?

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