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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 name of the square the group go to for a rally?

2. Whom does Brown think will now win the elections?

3. What slang word does the author use to call the fifty police standing guard outside the church?

4. Where does Brown say he wants to go to write?

5. Why do the Militants start showing an interest in Brown?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the area surrounding St. Basil's church?

2. How does Brown become part of the Chicano Militant group?

3. What does Mickey De Silva say he remembers about the night Robert supposedly hanged himself?

4. Why do the Chicano groups not support the militants' attack on St. Basil's church?

5. Why does the court issue a restraining order against the East LA Thirteen?

6. Why did the police arrest Robert Fernandez?

7. Why is the Belmont hotel a place for Brown to live?

8. What problems does Bobby Kennedy's death cause the Chicano militants?

9. How does Manny claim racism has stopped him from becoming famous?

10. What does Brown arrange at the coroner's office?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do the students think Brown chooses the cockroach to describe his own people? Why do groups, in general, use such derogatory terms in reference to themselves?

Essay Topic 2

What evidence suggests the police could have killed Fernandez? How will it affect the Chicano Movement if the police are found guilty of murder?

Essay Topic 3

What were the lives of Mexicans like in America before the Chicano Movement existed? How did the Chicano Movement change life for Mexicans in America?

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