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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 is ron canita?
(a) A Christmas dish.
(b) A Saturce dance.
(c) A homemade rum.
(d) A song dedicated to women and liquor.

2. When Mami was fed up with Papi, where does she go?
(a) Nuevo York.
(b) Macun.
(c) Saturce.
(d) La Parada.

3. What large object does Papi ask Esmeralda to bring him?
(a) A wheelbarrow.
(b) A cinder block.
(c) A shovel.
(d) A trowel.

4. How many siblings did Mami's mother have?
(a) 12.
(b) 14.
(c) 17.
(d) 2.

5. How does Esmeralda burn her fingers?
(a) She touches a lit candle.
(b) She runs the water too hot.
(c) She touches the sunny side of the house.
(d) She touches the stove.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Puerto Rican food does the American food expert fail to recognize?

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

3. What did Esmeralda volunteer to do at school?

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

5. When Esmeralda is living in Saturce, what nighttime sound does she miss most?

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