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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 9 | Part 1, Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following words best describes how Carlos feels about the middle class?
(a) Resignation
(b) Envy
(c) Admiration
(d) Contempt

2. At what age does Carlos leave home?
(a) 15
(b) 10
(c) 13
(d) 18

3. On what does the family spend all of its money?
(a) Food, clothes and health checkups
(b) Buying new hectares of land
(c) Macario's school expenses
(d) New animals to help on the farm

4. What does Macario think the family should sell so that he can finish his last three months of school?
(a) All the land they have left or the house
(b) Any food they grow
(c) The church land
(d) All of the animals they own

5. Which of the following terms means lending of money at an extremely high interest rate?
(a) Sharkery
(b) Peasantry
(c) Slavery
(d) Usury

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Carlos have to stay home during the rainy season?

2. In what type of business does Carlos' mother work?

3. Who returns to the family and helps make the next loan payment?

4. What does the younger generation in the Philippines want?

5. Where does Carlos' father go to try to retrieve his land?

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