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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18-20, The Denim Jacket, A Beauty Treatment, Nativity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About how many Argentines "disappeared" between 1976 and 1979?
(a) Exactly 24,594.
(b) Over 50,000.
(c) Almost 30,000.
(d) Almost 15,000.

2. As a child, what were the subjects of Alicia's poems?
(a) Plants and birds.
(b) Mountains and oceans.
(c) Buildings and trains.
(d) Colors and numbers.

3. Which guard allows the prisoners to talk?
(a) Abuelo.
(b) Vaca.
(c) Viejo.
(d) Chamame.

4. What does Alicia refuse to do, though directly commanded by Loro and Peine?
(a) She refuses to slap Hugo in the face.
(b) She refuses to use the latrine.
(c) She refuses to talk about her daughter.
(d) She refuses to stop talking.

5. What does Alicia specifically not want from God?
(a) She does not want her daughter to be taken.
(b) She does not want to become a martyr.
(c) She does not want to denounce her faith.
(d) She does not want her husband to be taken.

Short Answer Questions

1. What physical trait does Alicia note about Patichoti?

2. What does she dream of as it rains?

3. What is the guards' nickname for Alicia?

4. Once when the guard does not answer her, what does Alicia do to give Pato some bread?

5. When the new prisoners arrive, what does Alicia do?

(see the answer key)

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