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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following are a part of Carlos' duties at the newspaper after Pascual gets sick?
(a) Editorial duties
(b) Business manager duties
(c) Selling advertising
(d) Selling subscriptions

2. What does Carlos find his mother doing when he finally finds her?
(a) Taking care of his siblings
(b) Caring for his ill father
(c) Plowing
(d) Selling beans

3. From what disease does Marian die?
(a) Cancer
(b) Tuberculosis
(c) Pneumonia
(d) Syphilis

4. Which of the following is the best definition for the term barrio?
(a) A very wealthy area of a town
(b) A regular neighborhood
(c) A Spanish-speaking area of a town
(d) A slum and very poor neighborhood

5. Why does Carlos begin drinking and roaming around the West Coast?
(a) Trying to find his love, Dora
(b) Upset by Marian's death
(c) Trying to find Jose and Miller
(d) Hiding out from contractor thugs

6. What is the name of the woman married to Pascual who helps to run the newspaper?
(a) Meghan
(b) Marrianne
(c) Lucille
(d) Lydia

7. What is Pascual's final wish?
(a) To move to San Francisco
(b) To return to the Philippines
(c) To move toward socialism
(d) To have Carlos take over the newspaper

8. What does Carlos do with all of his money?
(a) Opens a bakery
(b) Gives it to Amado
(c) Opens a restaurant
(d) Loses it gambling

9. What does Macario think the family should sell so that he can finish his last three months of school?
(a) All the land they have left or the house
(b) The church land
(c) Any food they grow
(d) All of the animals they own

10. What work do Amado and his friend Alfredo do?
(a) Work in the tomato fields
(b) Bus drivers
(c) Thieves
(d) Bootlegger

11. Who is Mariano?
(a) A friend of Carlos'sbrother
(b) The man Carlos kills with Max
(c) Carlos' boss
(d) Carlos' gambling partner

12. How does Carlos learn of the death of his father?
(a) A letter from his cousin
(b) A letter from his mother
(c) From his family when he returns home for a visit
(d) From his brother Amado

13. How does Carlos know that a revolt is about to begin?
(a) His mother tells him
(b) Felix tells him
(c) He sees the police lining up in the fields
(d) His little sisters tell him

14. Where does Carlos' ship dock in America?
(a) New York
(b) Washington
(c) Oregon
(d) California

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Carlos find Jose?

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

3. What does Juan Cablaan give Carlos?

4. What does Marian want Carlos to do?

5. How does Carlos earn money while he is living with his cousin?

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