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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Rafas and Henry pull out during the fight?
(a) Switchblades.
(b) Butcher knives.
(c) Whips.
(d) Guns.

2. When George Shearer meets the boys for the first time, he says he is a lawyer hired to do what?
(a) Protect the boys' gang.
(b) Keep the boys out of jail.
(c) Protect the boys' parents.
(d) Represent the boys.

3. El Pachuco tells Henry that George and Alice are using him for what?
(a) Their own purposes.
(b) Money.
(c) AS a poster boy for injustice.
(d) To get ahead in the world.

4. Where does the fight that Edwards and Smith want Henry to tell them about occur?
(a) Sleepy Cave.
(b) Sleepy Cove.
(c) Sleepy River.
(d) Sleepy Lagoon.

5. What is the role of El Pachuco at the beginning of Act 1, scene iii?
(a) A commentator.
(b) Henry's conscience.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Henry's confidante.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is name of the rival gang that appears in Act 1, scene i?

2. Just because Tommy is integrated into the gang does not mean the gang trusts what?

3. According to El Pachuco, what era of the Chicanos wanted to live the powerful pachuco dream?

4. Who is El Pachuco?

5. What was Rudy doing the night of the Sleepy Lagoon murder that Henry was warned about?

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