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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: "The Maid's Daughter"- Part II: "The Caretakers".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first letter Garfield ever writes for Yo is for her pursuit of what endeavor?
(a) To be a Fulbright scholar.
(b) To be awarded a graduate assistantship at Brown.
(c) To get into MIT.
(d) To get into Harvard Business School.

2. What type of school does Sarita attend?
(a) Magnet.
(b) Charter.
(c) Public.
(d) Preparatory.

3. The narrator of the chapter entitled "The Mother" says that "the hardest thing coming to this country" had actually been what element?
(a) Language.
(b) Winter.
(c) Prejudice.
(d) Getting a job.

4. In what New York City borough does the Garcia family live?
(a) The Bronx.
(b) Manhattan.
(c) Queens.
(d) Staten Island.

5. Which author had been the topic of the seminar in which Garfield had met Yo?
(a) Melville.
(b) Milton.
(c) Donne.
(d) Hemingway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Two of the sisters of the Prologue's narrator have what job?

2. Sarita recalls that the Garcias had treated her like a cross between a "goodwill project" (57) and a what?

3. What type of doctor does Sarita become before setting up her own practice in Florida?

4. When Yo sends Garfield works of literature, who is always the author?

5. Whose ashes does Garfield keep in a box inside his garden?

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