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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Carlos and Jose find Miller?
(a) With Helen
(b) Tied to a tree
(c) On the floor of a car
(d) In secret meetings with the agricultural interests

2. How do Carlos and Luciano earn money to open a small store?
(a) They bar-b-que birds and sell them
(b) They capture and sell parrots
(c) They babysit children from the village
(d) They fix equipment and machinery

3. What organization does Carlos try to help Jose keep together?
(a) Filipino Workers' Association
(b) Labor Movement
(c) Pascual's Newspaper
(d) The New Tide

4. What book does Macario read to Carlos?
(a) Titantic
(b) Black Beauty
(c) Treasure Island
(d) Robinson Crusoe

5. Why do Julio and Carlos flee the orchard?
(a) They want to find Carlos's brothers
(b) The crew leader stole their paychecks
(c) A group appears and starts shooting at everyone
(d) They are tired of working hard

6. Who does Carlos discover has a true hatred of Filipinos?
(a) Carlos
(b) Helen
(c) Macario
(d) Amado

7. What does Carlos' father turn to when he loses the court case about his land?
(a) Mayor
(b) His son
(c) Drinking
(d) America

8. Which of the following is not an accurate description of how Carlos feels on the journey to America?
(a) Ill with meningitis
(b) In search of friends
(c) Seasick
(d) Lonely

9. With what disease is Carlos diagnosed?
(a) Syphilis
(b) Cancer
(c) Pneumonia
(d) Tuberculosis

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

11. What does Juan Cablaan give Carlos?
(a) Books
(b) Shoes
(c) Suitcase
(d) Ticket to America

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

13. What job must Carlos father take on after he realizes he has no land?
(a) Banker
(b) Farmer
(c) Day laborer
(d) Baker

14. Where does Miss Strandon arrange for Carlos to have a job?
(a) Newspaper
(b) Doctor's office
(c) Pet store
(d) Library

15. Which character gets a girl in trouble and has to leave town?
(a) Macario
(b) Nick
(c) Luz
(d) Carlos

Short Answer Questions

1. Which world event intensifies the hatred against Filipinos?

2. Which character has his feet severed by a train?

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

4. Of what nationality is the woman who owns the restaurant where Carlos hangs out?

5. Why does Carlos move back to California?

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