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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. How many names does Jose know how to write?
(a) 10.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.
2. For what type of job does Yo move to the state where she meets Marie and Clair?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Writing.
(c) Research.
(d) Data entry.
3. In what way does Yo meet Lou?
(a) Lou is friends with Yo's sister Sandi.
(b) Yo and Lou are in the same support group.
(c) Yo is Lou's student.
(d) Lou is Yo's student.
4. Jose recalls that when he was young, the other boys in the village had called him what name?
(a) Pajaro.
(b) Campesino.
(c) Negro.
(d) Negra.
5. What is Lou's last name?
(a) Castellucci.
(b) Edison.
(c) Robinson.
(d) Lopez.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who ends up hiring Jose as a night watchman?
2. How does Yo meet her future husband Doug?
3. Who states that she only shares her poetry with one other person in the world?
4. In what year of college does Lou have Yo as a professor?
5. Dexter pretends to be a journalist at whose behest?
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss the ways in which the characters of Yo and Dexter differ.
2. What element does Alvarez depict as the main reason for the split between Yo and Dexter?
3. In what type of group do Yo and Tammy meet?
4. How does Alvarez portray the theme of superstition and religious belief within the chapter entitled "The Night Watchman"?
5. How does irony arise within Tammy's comments about Yo's lack of romantic interest in men?
6. How does Alvarez depict the effects of the cycle of abuse within the novel?
7. Name at least three narrators of the chapter entitled "The Wedding Guests."
8. Describe Yo's status in the Dominican Republic as an adult.
9. For what reason does Yo come to join Tammy in bed within the chapter entitled "The Best Friend"?
10. In what way is the theme of rebirth demonstrated within the chapter entitled "The Landlady"?
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