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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3 and 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What city is Watts in?
(a) L.A.
(b) Dallas.
(c) Chicago.
(d) San Diego.

2. What was injured in the fight that prompted police to respond?
(a) Luis.
(b) The mother.
(c) Seni.
(d) Seni's husband.

3. What was Luis's father doing when he met his mother?
(a) Forming a gang.
(b) Becoming a teacher.
(c) Participating in a foreign study program.
(d) Leaving for New York.

4. Whose fight prompted the police to come to where Luis's family was staying in the beginning of the book?
(a) Rano and Luis.
(b) Rano and his mother.
(c) Luis and his father.
(d) Seni and her husband.

5. Where did Luis's father meet his mother?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Indianapolis.
(c) L.A.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the gang taken into custody after the fight at the beach?

2. Who ends up painting a mural on the concession stand that is the scene of a gang incident?

3. Who is Luis with when he finds the police at their home?

4. Who says "a thief must be willing to do what needs to be done without thinking?"

5. Who is Rano?

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