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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. From which of the following backgrounds is Gordo reputed to come?
(a) Cuban.
(b) Puerto Rican.
(c) Dominican.
(d) Haitian.

2. With which of the following does Chapter Thirty-three begin?
(a) Back on the shore, Sierra trudged toward the blurry boardwalk lights.
(b) It made some kind of creepy sense.
(c) The subway ride home was a blur.
(d) Neville’s Cadillac Seville screeched to a halt outside an old iron fence on a deserted street.

3. Whom does Sierra call after storming out of her home following her upset at Rosa?
(a) Manny.
(b) Bennie.
(c) Robbie.
(d) Nydia.

4. Which of the following is the first to leave Sierra as she goes to Coney Island?
(a) Little Jerome.
(b) Tee.
(c) Izzy.
(d) Big Jerome.

5. What title does Izzy give to her suggested book?
(a) Dream vs. Vision: A Metanoetic Criticism.
(b) Hipster and Yuppie: A Gentrifying Continuum.
(c) Hipster vs. Yuppie: A Culturalpological Study.
(d) Brooklyn vs. Queens: An Ethnogeography.

Short Answer Questions

1. As which of the following does the novel gloss “van a bailar” (155)?

2. Chapter Twenty-three begins with which of the following?

3. With a drawing of what figure does Sierra first attempt shadowshaping with Robbie in Prospect Park?

4. In the novel, the phrase “‘Pa’ dónde vas, m’ija?” (131) most nearly means which of the following?

5. For which of the following coffees does Sierra express a preference?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Robbie note that the intention of a shadowshaped artwork matters?

2. What does Lucera identify as the source of shadowshaping power?

3. How is Coney Island described when Sierra and her companions reach it?

4. How does Sierra attempt to repel the corpuscules that confront her and her companions at Coney Island?

5. How does Tee differentiate hipsters from yuppies?

6. What occasioned the fight between Carmen and Lázaro?

7. For what reason do Sierra’s companions leave El Mar?

8. How is a normal night at El Mar described?

9. How does Nydia describe the Sorrows when Sierra asks her about them?

10. What reasons does Sierra have for thinking Nydia has betrayed her?

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