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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 does Antonia fix for her mother right before she tells her about Paolo?

2. Where is a casket buried for Carlo, though there is no body?

3. How many other Jews travel on an ocean liner with Saul Grossman?

4. What time is Sunday dinner served when Tommy FIanzo's employees come to eat?

5. When Joey, Rosa, Sofia, Lina, and Antonia return from the ocean, what does Rosa make to eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What smuggling empire does Joey Colicchio coordinate during the war?

2. When does Antonia realize there is a seed of anger in Sofia?

3. How is Sofia's first day of high school?

4. As Antonia and Sofia get older, how are they different from their classmates and why?

5. How does Antonia spend her time her first year in high school?

6. In Book 2, what does Antonia do on Sunday mornings?

7. How does Lina respond when Antonia tells her she is in love?

8. How did Joey begin to work for Tommy Fianzo?

9. What conversations do Sofia and Antonia have each week before the dinners, and what are they thinking to themselves?

10. What are Antonia's thoughts when her mother tells her that Uncle Joey is responsible for her father's death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The climax in a novel is the highest point of tension and a turning point. What is the climax of The Family and why is that incident the climax?

Essay Topic 2

There is a woman in the Red Hook neighborhood who is known as a witch. Why is the woman known as a witch? How does she help Lina and other women like her?

Essay Topic 3

Sofia and Antonia are exposed to various gender norms. What gender norms are young ladies like Sofia and Antonia expected to follow? How are gender norms and roles taught to Sofia and Antonia?

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