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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Someone Is Coming to Take Your Lap and American Invastion of Macun.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color butterfly does Mami swat away from her ear?
(a) Red.
(b) Yellow.
(c) White.
(d) Black.

2. In "Someone is Coming to Take Your Lap", Esmeralda sees "ribbons" hanging from the trees. What are these "ribbons"?
(a) Hair ribbons hanging to dry.
(b) Confetti from the last celebration.
(c) Christmas decorations.
(d) Pig intestines drying for sausage.

3. How many eggs does the hen in the yard lay?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

4. Esmeralda learns that which of the following is something reciprocally exchanged between adults?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Humor.
(c) Money.
(d) Dignidad.

5. Esmeralda learns that all men are which of the following?
(a) Sinverguenzas.
(b) Caballeros.
(c) Irresponsible fathers.
(d) Hijos de la gran puta.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't Papi bring Margie to visit?

2. What do Norma's eyes resemble?

3. In "The American Invasion of Macun", what does the expert pull out of a suitcase?

4. The children smell what kind of soap when the men come home after work?

5. How old is the narrator when her family arrives in Macun?

(see the answer key)

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