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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 33: "Minerva Writes Poems".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Minerva already have?
(a) Two kids and a husband, who left.
(b) A house.
(c) A college degree.
(d) Wrinkles.

2. Why is Minerva black and blue?
(a) She is sick with cancer.
(b) Her children beat her.
(c) Her husband beats her.
(d) She is very clumsy.

3. What does Marin do when her aunt goes to sleep?
(a) She sews baby clothing.
(b) Drinks tequila.
(c) She cooks and makes lunches for all of the kids the following day.
(d) She stands under the streetlights smoking and listening to the radio.

4. What does she plan on doing as soon as she gets back to P.R.?
(a) Have more children.
(b) Attend university.
(c) Marry her boyfriend.
(d) Teach elementary school.

5. Where does Marin’s boyfriend live?
(a) Puerto Rico.
(b) Arizona.
(c) Texas.
(d) Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marin do for work to earn money?

2. Who has died at the beginning of this vignette?

3. Whose father was it?

4. What does Minerva do after her children have gone to sleep?

5. Who crumples like a coat and cries?

(see the answer key)

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