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

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

3. How are the prisoners required to address the guards?
(a) As "soldier."
(b) As "ma'am."
(c) As "master."
(d) As "senor."

4. After spraying and threatening the prisoners with a gun, what does Vaca give them?
(a) Toothbrushes and toothpaste.
(b) Money.
(c) Photos of their families.
(d) Shampoo and conditioner.

5. What do the prisoners have to do after they brush their teeth?
(a) They have to change beds.
(b) They receive dental appointments.
(c) They wash their faces in the guards' bathroom.
(d) They spit into a can.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the raindrop hit on her body?

2. What does eating the bread remind the prisoner of?

3. How many permanent shift supervisors were there at the Little School?

4. How many children did Maria and Nestor have?

5. What does Alicia's mother brag that her children do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Alicia make the bread balls?

2. How does she feel when she is able to wash her hands with the leak?

3. What does Vaca do just before he brings the prisoners the toothbrushes?

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

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

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

7. What happened to the son Graciela bore at the Little School?

8. When a batch of new prisoners arrive, what is Alicia requested to do?

9. How does she feel while being punished by Peine?

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

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