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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 years are covered in Part I, Chapter Three?

2. What is Beli's first job?

3. What is Belicia's first name?

4. How many jobs had Belicia worked to buy the house where she lives with Lola and Oscar?

5. What is the name of the first real club where Beli goes to dance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Gangster doing by the time he was between the ages of 12 and 14?

2. How does Belicia react when students and staff throw direct barbs at her in Part I, Chapter Three?

3. How did Lola help her mother before she was thirteen?

4. Who are two other outcasts at school where Belicia attends?

5. In Part I, Chapter One, what does Oscar dream about his sister's friends?

6. In Part I, Chapter Three, why does the narrator think Belicia is ungrateful?

7. After Oscar spends a week looking at himself in the mirror in Part 1, Chapter One, what changes does he make?

8. Who is the Gangster's wife, and how did they meet?

9. What does Oscar do when he spends the summer at his abuela Nena Inca's house?

10. What is Lola doing and why doesn't she want to come when her mother calls her into the bathroom at the beginning of Part I, Chapter 2?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 3, Beli and her aunt increasingly have conflicts with one another. Why does the relationship between Beli and her aunt deteriorate so badly?

Essay Topic 2

Belicia's growing up years are described in Chapter 3. What type of person was Belicia, and what need inside of her shaped her character and who she was?

Essay Topic 3

Beli has an affair with a man known as the Gangster. Why did this affair cause her bodily harm and eventually lead to her moving to the U.S.?

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