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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Father Sean's response to Xiomara's in-class query about a particular Biblical figure?

2. What behavior of Xiomara's does Caridad often correct?

3. In what manner did Xavier arrive into the world?

4. Xiomara writes that certain boys in middle school had called her what name?

5. Father Sean tells Xiomara that "not every fight can be fought with" (125) what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what format is the novel The Poet X composed?

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

4. By what name does Xiomara always call Xavier and why?

5. What is Xavier's reaction when Xiomara asks him why he has been smiling so much lately?

6. Discuss one element of performance that feels liberating to Xiomara and why.

7. What types of men does Xiomara indicate that she will avoid in her romantic future?

8. In what way is writing depicted as a therapeutic activity within Part I of the novel?

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

10. What does Xiomara state is the most important goal she has for her future?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the theme of courage within The Poet X. What is Acevedo's message regarding courage and how do you know?

Essay Topic 2

Could The Poet X be classified as a coming-of-age novel? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Determine Acevedo's message regarding the idea that art must be shared with an audience in order to fulfill its true potential.

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