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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following words best describes how Carlos feels about the middle class?
(a) Admiration
(b) Envy
(c) Contempt
(d) Resignation

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

4. What traditionally happens when a new presidente (mayor) is elected in a city?
(a) The new mayor interviews all old employees and keeps only those that he likes
(b) They are forced to leave their country and go to America
(c) All old employees are fired
(d) All old employees are killed

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

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

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

8. How long is Amado in prison?
(a) 6 months
(b) 6 weeks
(c) 6 years
(d) 6 days

9. Of what nationality is the woman who owns the restaurant where Carlos hangs out?
(a) American
(b) Korean
(c) Japanese
(d) Filipino

10. What does the younger generation in the Philippines want?
(a) Change and national independence
(b) Social equality among all classes
(c) More land to farm
(d) More rights for farmers

11. Where does Carlos' father go to try to retrieve his land?
(a) His son
(b) Court
(c) Mayor
(d) Absentee landlord

12. What happens to all of the family's animals and land?
(a) They die from disease
(b) They are sold off to pay for Carlos's school
(c) They are lost
(d) They are taken away during the revolt

13. With whom is Nick running a literary magazine in Los Angeles?
(a) Felix
(b) Pascual
(c) Carlos
(d) Max

14. Why does Carlos move back to California?
(a) To stay away from Alfredo
(b) To work in a milk factory
(c) To visit his brother in jail on weekends
(d) To rob a bank

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does not accurately describe Marian's life?

2. How does Carlos know that a revolt is about to begin?

3. Where does Carlos find Jose?

4. Which of the following is not an accurate description of how Carlos feels on the journey to America?

5. How much money does Carlos earn from his time at the cannery?

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