When I was Puerto Rican (Jíbara-Letters from New York)

The book starts with a vivid description of what fruit?

• Guava
• Apple
• Orange
• Pear

What is a "Jibaro"?

• A type of bug
• A person from Jib
• Puerto Rican country dwellers
• Puerto Rican city dwellers

What is the narrator's nickname?

• Esme
• Negi
• Titi
• Alda

Who is Margie?

• The narrator's half sister
• The narrator's cousin
• The narrator's step mother
• There is no Margie in the book

 Why did Mami move the family to Santurce?

• Life would be better there.
• It's where her family lived.
• Papi did not come home for four days. 
• All of the above.

What does it mean when "Someone is coming to take your lap"?

• Your mother is pregnant.
• You will not be allowed to sit down.
• There is no food in the house.
• All of the above.

When the American's came to speak to the mothers at the school, they were trying to 

• educate the mother's about nutrition and health habits
• take a census of how many children lived in Mancun
• improve the educational system
• take the children away from the parents and put them in orphanages

What is a jamona?

• A negative term for a woman that never married.
• A compliment to indicate a woman is strong. 
• A type of fruit that grows in Puerto Rico
• A person who sells things on a street corner. 

What happens when Papi takes the narrator to visit her abuela?

• He  comes on Sunday to pick her up, as promised. 
• He does not show up to pick her up and her mother comes to get her. 
• She decides to live with abuela permanently. 
• Papi stays decides to stay at abuela's with her. 

After the hurricane

• Mami moves to Santoria
• Papi gets a job in another city
• Mami gets a job at a factory
• Negi and her sisiters  move in with Abuela