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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. Who are the girls in school who have made Mari their project?
(a) Meredith and Maya.
(b) Nan and Rachel.
(c) Brenda and Cathi.
(d) Angela and Megan.

2. Who asks the Cruzes if they know anything about where Grandma went?
(a) Larry and Vicky.
(b) Abelard.
(c) Connie.
(d) Jeanne and Byron.

3. Where does Luby go after her half day at school?
(a) The trailer.
(b) Tyler's house.
(c) After-school program.
(d) Tyler's grandmother's.

4. What birds does Mari go to watch in the barn?
(a) Pigeons.
(b) Owls.
(c) Starlings.
(d) Swallows.

5. How old was Mari when she came to the U.S.?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best way for Tyler to stay in touch with Gramps?

2. What does Grandma serve to drink when she has the Cruz girls and Tyler over for supper?

3. Where did Tyler go after his grandfather died and his father was hurt in a farm accident?

4. Where is Ben going to go to college?

5. What does Tyler say his family thinks happened to Grandma?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Tyler's family's farm not have a name?

2. Why does Tyler's father think the Mexicans working for them may not be legal?

3. What does Tyler think is strange about the Cruz girls and their mother?

4. How does Mari decide to deliver her letter to Virgencita de Guadalupe?

5. What does Tyler say when Mari tells him that she and her father and uncles are in the U.S. illegally?

6. Why is Mari not able to send the letters she has written her mother in August of 2005?

7. Why does Ben think Mari gets upset when her sisters say she was born in Mexico?

8. What does Mari compare the swallows to when Tyler tells her they migrate to Mexico in the fall?

9. Why was Tio Felipe arrested?

10. Why does Grandma visit the Cruzes in their trailer in December?

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