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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What person are Graciela and the guards waiting for?
(a) Alicia.
(b) A doctor.
(c) The General.
(d) Raul.

2. How far along in her pregnancy was Graciela at the time of her arrest?
(a) Eight months.
(b) Three months.
(c) Seven months.
(d) Five months.

3. When the new prisoners arrive, what does Alicia do?
(a) She shares the leak over her bed.
(b) She recites a poem.
(c) She tells them to keep their blindfolds tight.
(d) She distracts the guards to keep them safe.

4. What experience does Zorzal have with delivering babies?
(a) He was present when his wife gave birth years ago.
(b) He has helped animals in the country deliver babies.
(c) He was in medical school before the Little School.
(d) He has no experience at all.

5. Why is this day different?
(a) It is cold.
(b) It is raining.
(c) It is windy.
(d) It is snowing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What beauty treatment is Alicia told to perform?

2. For what are the prisoners constantly looking for in their beds?

3. How many children did Maria and Nestor have?

4. Why were the high school students taken to the Little School?

5. Who is present at the baby's birth?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Gendarme Nacional?

2. What is the subject of chapter 11, A Puzzle?

3. What does the name "Patichoti" mean?

4. What does water do for Alicia in Beauty Treatment?

5. How does the bread help to give the prisoners strength?

6. On what list are Graciela and Raul listed?

7. What was Alicia on the early bus to the suburbs?

8. Why is the guards' choice of Chinese water torture ridiculous?

9. What are the two fierce shadows of Alicia's poem?

10. Why are Alicia and her husband placed side by side?

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