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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. In what manner does Jose describe Yo's body?
(a) Pleasantly plump.
(b) Noodle-thin.
(c) Angular.
(d) Luscious.
2. How does Yo meet her future husband Doug?
(a) Doug rents Don Mundin's home.
(b) Yo is teaching in the Dominican Republic
(c) They join the same support group.
(d) Doug is building houses in the Dominican Republic
3. The chapter entitled "The Suitor" is narrated by which character?
(a) Dexter.
(b) Lucinda.
(c) Doug.
(d) Carlos.
4. How many different wedding guests help to narrate the chapter of the same name?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.
5. Which of Yo's family members loses an election in the Dominican Republic after Dexter's visit?
(a) Her uncle.
(b) Her cousin.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her grandfather.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many names does Jose know how to write?
2. What do Yo and Marie do with Clair's belongings?
3. In what month does Yo stop teaching a particular character to read when she goes back to the United States?
4. Dexter pretends to be a journalist at whose behest?
5. Which member of Yo's family is running for president of the Dominican Republic?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Alvarez depict the effects of the cycle of abuse within the novel?
2. Name at least three narrators of the chapter entitled "The Wedding Guests."
3. In what way is the theme of rebirth demonstrated within the chapter entitled "The Landlady"?
4. Describe Yo's status in the Dominican Republic as an adult.
5. To what phrase does Yo have a strong reaction during her conversation with Jose?
6. What does the poem by Sappho symbolize?
7. For what reason does Yo come to join Tammy in bed within the chapter entitled "The Best Friend"?
8. Discuss a time in the text when Tammy displays the effects of past physical abuse.
9. Discuss Dexter's metaphor of the caged "bright bird" (204).
10. Name three different reasons Jose wants to give his next child to Yo.
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