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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. How does Rat create an emergency exit inside the boys' tiny room above the laundry?
2. What item does Gardo tell Olivia will surely grant her entry into the prison?
3. What is the main thing Olivia says she has learned from the Behala dumpsite in her time there?
4. What does Olivia do when she sees Gardo dressed in his new clothes?
5. What news does Gardo deliver to Gabriel Olondriz that causes the old man to cry?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do the boys figure out that the money lies within the Navaro Graveyard at the center of the city?
2. What are the three skills that Rat says he is the best at in life?
3. How does Gabriel Olondriz say he has ended up in Colva Prison?
4. What are all of the ways in which Senator Zapanta's property compound is protected?
5. When the boys hide inside a small room within a tenement building, who first detects approaching danger and leads the other two boys out through the hole in the roof to safety?
6. When Gardo meets with the prison guard named Marco in order to pay a bribe for Gabriel Olondriz's Bible, how does Marco betray Gardo and how does Gardo then escape?
7. In what way does Gabriel Olondriz say that he had been betrayed by his legal defense team?
8. After the boys escape from the police's raid of the tenement building, where do they go and why is the place they go so crowded on this particular day?
9. Of what crimes was Gabriel Olondriz falsely accused after his attempt to expose Senator Zapanta's corruption?
10. When the police return to the dumpsite in search of the boys, what plan does Rat suggest?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Oftentimes in Western culture, volunteerism is looked at in terms of only helping those in need, but the novel seems to put forth the proposition that service to others can also be a means to the provider's own personal happiness. Find examples within the novel Trash that would prove this conclusion regarding the author's message about service to others and discuss the message's overall effect on the reader.
Essay Topic 2
The novel is littered with the use of sensory details throughout the narrative. Discuss the author's purpose in including the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and tactile sensations of those living within the dumpsite community of Behala. Include plenty of concrete details from the novel to support your claims.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the significance of the novel's title and of the repeated references to it throughout the novel. What is the author's purpose in including the motif of trash, both in the title and throughout the narrative of the novel?
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