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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 the name of Xavier's boyfriend?
2. What is the date of the citywide poetry slam?
3. What beverage does Father Sean offer Xiomara during their conversation?
4. Xiomara confesses her worry that Xavier's homosexuality will make him a what?
5. Xiomara and Xavier "talk to" (137) how many other people besides one another?
Short Essay Questions
1. What experience does Xiomara have with receiving compliments?
2. What event causes Xiomara to break up with Aman?
3. What is on the list of prohibited behaviors Xiomara includes in the poem entitled "What I Don't Tell Aman" (148)?
4. To what location does Xiomara take the train in an effort to catch Xavier off guard?
5. Discuss the humanist messages present within the short poem entitled "Wants" (146).
6. For what purpose does Xiomara use the metaphor of a balloon to describe her feelings when she sees Cody?
7. What event causes Xiomara to wonder about the qualities of silence and its possible destructive nature?
8. About what topic does Xiomara have hope, as discussed in her poem "Hope is a Thing with Wings" (263)?
9. Discuss Xiomara's use of personification in the poem entitled "Silent World" (223).
10. Provide a brief description of each member of the poetry club and state what goes on there.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Look carefully at the passages of the novel that describe the close, yet somewhat tentative, relationship between Xiomara and Xavier. What is Acevedo's purpose for discussing at length the nature of the connection between these two teenage siblings?
Essay Topic 2
What is the Acevedo’s message concerning the unique struggle undergone by young women caught between two cultures?
Essay Topic 3
In what way is the theme of family bonds included and portrayed within the novel The Poet X?
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