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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rita goes to the Mayor to obtain permission to go where?
(a) To someone else's home to live.
(b) To the market.
(c) To a ceremony for the vice-governor's grandmother who died.
(d) To the country.

2. How does Rita feel about her Jewish background?
(a) She is very proud of her heritage.
(b) It seems unimportant to her.
(c) She takes her customs and religion very seriously.
(d) She resents her background.

3. What community does Rita want to learn more about in Chapter 4?
(a) The religious community.
(b) The ex-pat community.
(c) The street children .
(d) The elderly.

4. Who leads the group to Tower Island?
(a) Rita's daughter.
(b) The captain.
(c) A friend Rita had met on a previous trip.
(d) Rita.

5. What group does Rita join when she travels to Israel?
(a) Amnesty International.
(b) The Travelers Network.
(c) Servas.
(d) The Peace Corps.

6. What does Rita do in the waterfalls?
(a) She finds beautiful rocks.
(b) She showers.
(c) She swims without clothes.
(d) She sings.

7. How does Rita get to the Zapotec village?
(a) She runs.
(b) She takes a bus.
(c) She takes a train.
(d) She hitchhikes.

8. Who accompanies them into Nicaragua?
(a) Two soldiers.
(b) Some old friends.
(c) Some new friends.
(d) A priest.

9. Where does Rita's passion for travel get re-kindled?
(a) When she watches the Travel Channel on TV.
(b) When she goes to the Galapagos.
(c) When she goes to a seminar given by a world traveler.
(d) When she goes to the library and takes out some travel books.

10. Rita loses her position because the boss thinks what?
(a) She is over-qualified.
(b) There are too many gringos involved in the project.
(c) She is lazy.
(d) Her ideas are too off the mark.

11. When the plane lands on a different island than the one where Rita thinks she is staying, how does she react?
(a) She is very nervous, but doesn't know what to say.
(b) She decides to trust and enjoy the adventure.
(c) She is angry.
(d) She panicks and demands to go back.

12. With whom does Rita eat on her second night in Mexico City?
(a) Two strange men from England.
(b) A woman she meets while in the museum.
(c) A teacher from the Spanish school.
(d) A travel agent.

13. When does Rita feel very connected with the women in the village?
(a) When they dance together.
(b) When they are cooking together.
(c) When they are out getting firewood together.
(d) When they are working in the fields together.

14. What is the last great task Rita accomplishes before leaving the village?
(a) She makes a meal for her host family.
(b) She swims across the river.
(c) She creates a beautiful necklace.
(d) She climbs the mountain.

15. What does Rita learn how to make at Mama's?
(a) Sweaters.
(b) Rice cakes.
(c) Tortillas.
(d) Shoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't women sing during the service?

2. With whom does Rita travel to the ceremony?

3. What does Zahava want Rita to experience?

4. Of what is the author afraid at the beginning of Chapter 2?

5. How long does Rita want to stay in the Zapotec village?

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