American Like Me

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. From what country in Central America does Ferrera’s mother hail?

A) Panama

B) Honduras

C) Belize

D) Nicaragua

2. When Ferrera is just six years old, she falls in love with a boy at school. Which of these situations regarding the boy most strongly impacts  Ferrera’s life?

A) The boy tells her that he likes a girl with blue eyes and lighter skin than Ferrera. 

B) The boy’s family is deported from the country.

C) The boy claims she is “dirty” because her family came from Central America.

D) The boy’s family does not approve of his crush on Ferrera.

3. When Carmen Perez initially learns the term intersectionality in college, in what way does it resonate with her?

A) She finally feels as though she had the language to connect with her college classmates.

B) She remembers the street intersection in Oxnard of her family home, and a flood of memories rushes back to her.

C) She feels closer to her mother, now that she finally has a word that could describe both of their experiences.

D) She realizes how blessed she is to have experienced an intersectional childhood.

4. Issa Rae wants to participate in the religious tradition of Ramadan. With what part of her heritage does she hope to connect?

A) Her father’s Senegalese side of the family

B) Her mother’s Tunisian side of the family

C) Her father’s Moroccan side of the family

D) Her mother’s Nigerian side of the family

5. Which of the following is not an example of the sort of media representations that Diane Guerrero loved as a child while growing up in a Colombian household?

A) Cabbage Patch Kids

B) Ariel from The Little Mermaid

C) Belle from Beauty and the Beast

D) Polly Pocket dolls

6. At what age does Michelle Kwan take a test to move up to the senior level of figure skating, even though her coach thinks she is moving too fast and counsels against it?

A) 11 years old

B) 12 years old

C) 13 years old

D) 14 years old

7. Which of the following best describes the primary themes in Frank Waln’s essay, which explores the horrors of reservations?

A) Death and transformation

B) The loss of innocence

C) The struggle of good versus evil

D) Maternalism and the power of love

8. When Jeremy Lin joined the NBA, what record did he set?

A) First person of Korean descent to play in the league

B) First person of Thai descent to play in the league

C) First person of Vietnamese descent to play in the league

D) First person of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the league

9. Ravi V. Patel and his sister decide to make a documentary about their parents’ lives. What was the name of the film?

A) Ravi’s House

B) My Family, Partition, and Me

C) Meet the Patels

D) Crossing Lines

10. In Tanya Winder’s essay, she describes the story of Lake Paiute. Who is the main figure in this tale?

A) The Brick Brother

B) The Stone Mother

C) The Granite Sister

D) The Pearl Father

11. Which description best fits the way Anna Akana’s mother regards her own culture (Filipino) compared with her father’s culture (Japanese)?

A) Crass and low-class

B) Ancient and precious

C) Tough and enduring

D) Proud and unique

12. When Laurie Hernandez is asked by a reporter how she feels being the first US-born Latina gymnast to make the team in more than 30 years, how does Hernandez feel?

A) Confused, because Latina wasn’t an identity marker that Hernandez used to describe herself

B) Proud, because her grandmother had always said she’d be the first one in their family to do something groundbreaking

C) Afraid, because she had tried to conceal her Puerto Rican heritage from her teammates

D) Overjoyed, because she had always wanted to make history, and now her moment had finally come

13. When Anjelah Johnson-Reyes’s parents divorce, she feels more hurt by the separation than she professed. What is her vow?

A) To make sure her marriage would last forever

B) To never have children

C) To never let anyone hurt her again

D) To never get married

14. What is the name of the Brooklyn neighborhood in which Linda Sarsour grew up—the neighborhood that was a diverse enclave where neighbors shared food, customs, and upbringing from their respective cultures?

A) Park Slope

B) Bedford Stuyvesant

C) Flatbush

D) Sunset Park

15. In the conclusion of his essay (Essay 32), Joaquin Castro uses a metaphor to describe his grandmother’s greatest lesson to him. What is the type of metaphor he uses?

A) A botanical metaphor (great things can grow from those who plant seeds)

B) An astronomical metaphor (if you shoot for the moon, you can land on a star)

C) An oceanic metaphor (the tide will always rise and fall)

D) A baking metaphor (forget one ingredient, and your cake will never rise)

Long Answer

Compose a response of 2-3 sentences, incorporating text details to support your response.

1. What is the primary conflict regarding Auli’i Cravalho’s unique and varied ethnic identity, which she details in Essay 17?

2. How is intersectionality defined in the context of American Like Me? Why is it an important concept in the book?