Try it.
Read Sandra Cisneros's short story "Barbie-Q." Part of your active reading required you to create questions to clarify the text. Some of these questions may have been the same as yours. See if you can answer the questions correctly. Many are open-ended questions.
1. What do the damaged dolls in the flea market symbolize?
2. According to the details that the narrator provides the reader, who do you think the narrator may be?
3. What is the conflict in the text?
4. Why does Cisneros associate the title of the story with a cooking technique?
5. According to the details in the text, what type of society are the Barbies representing?
6. What do the Barbies offer the two girls in the story?
7. What does the author want me to remember or learn from the passage?
8. Are Barbie dolls themselves role models?
9. Why do the girls have their dolls fight over boys?
10. What could Barbie’s wardrobe, for instance, her "Red Flair," "Career Gal," "Jackie Kennedy pillbox hat," and "Prom Pinks," suggest about a woman’s status in society?
11. What does Barbie symbolize in the story?
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