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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the chapter that focuses on Marie and Clair?

2. What name does Jose give to the daughter who is born during the time of the narrative?

3. Who states that she only shares her poetry with one other person in the world?

4. Dexter meets which of Yo's family members during his surprise visit to the Dominican Republic?

5. What does Yo ask Dexter to pretend to be while he is around her family?

Short Essay Questions

1. What observation does Doug's pastor make about Yo at her wedding and why is it significant?

2. Name three different reasons Jose wants to give his next child to Yo.

3. From what culture does Tammy hail?

4. In what way does Alvarez set up the United States and the Dominican Republic as foil settings?

5. In what way does the theme of racial prejudice arise within the first conversation between Marie and Yo?

6. In what way is the theme of rebirth demonstrated within the chapter entitled "The Landlady"?

7. Discuss the ways in which the characters of Yo and Dexter differ.

8. Discuss a time in the text when Tammy displays the effects of past physical abuse.

9. What does the poem by Sappho symbolize?

10. Name at least three narrators of the chapter entitled "The Wedding Guests."

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the function of Lucinda's character within the novel? Discuss the characterization methods used by the author in depicting Lucinda and include in your discussion the reasons that Alvarez portrays her in these particular ways.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how and why the author instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of Julia Alvarez's novel Yo!.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the author's messages about guilt and responsibility within Julia Alvarez's novel Yo!.

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