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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are Macario, Nick and Felix going to Spain?
(a) To fight the peasants
(b) To help fight Fascism
(c) To protect Carlos and find him better medical care
(d) To get away from the thugs who want to hurt them

2. Which of the following is the title of Carlos' first published book?
(a) Filipino Letters
(b) Letter from America
(c) American Letters to the Philippines
(d) American Letters

3. Why is Carlos having more surgery?
(a) To treat his syphilis
(b) To be able to live with Eileen
(c) To treat the spreading tuberculosis
(d) To treat his knee

4. Where is Carlos' first stop on his trip visiting the workers?
(a) San Jose
(b) Bakersfield
(c) Los Angeles
(d) San Fernando

5. What does Carlos want to do when he recovers?
(a) Find Marian
(b) Return to the Philippines
(c) Go to school
(d) Join the labor movement again

6. What does Macario tell Carlos?
(a) He does not care for Carlos
(b) Carlos is not really his brother
(c) He will always take care of him
(d) He is leaving for Spain

7. What does Carlos dream about while on the bus?
(a) First arrival in America
(b) The terrible beating he received
(c) Eileen and the books she has shared with him
(d) Childhood in Binalonan

8. Who does Carlos turn over the classes to when he leaves?
(a) One of the workers
(b) Jose
(c) Ganzo
(d) No one, they die off when he leaves

9. Why do the doctors put Carlos' leg in a cast?
(a) It is hurt in the beating in San Jose
(b) The tuberculosis
(c) So he does not leave the hospital
(d) Because it swells in the rainy season

10. Who does the newspaper headline say is leading the strike?
(a) Carlos
(b) Macario
(c) A Filipino communist
(d) Jose

11. Where does Carlos find Nick after he leaves Portland?
(a) San Jose
(b) Alaska
(c) Los Angeles
(d) Seattle

12. Which of the following is not an accurate description of Macario in Chapter 44?
(a) Haggard
(b) Ill
(c) Old looking
(d) Well enough to work

13. With what task in the hospital does Carlos help?
(a) Reading to children who have tuberculosis
(b) Spending time working at the information desk
(c) Surgery
(d) Caring for other patients

14. What do Carlos, Jose and Macario find themselves in the middle of at the bar?
(a) Police sting
(b) Brawl
(c) Debate
(d) Argument

15. Which of the following characters is not living in Carlos' apartment in Los Angeles?
(a) Jose
(b) Victor
(c) Amado
(d) Nick

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Carlos go to talk to Nick?

2. How long does it take Carlos to be well enough to travel?

3. Why is Carlos evicted?

4. How many Filipino contractors control about 3,000 Filipino workers?

5. Where is Carlos when Pearl Harbor is attacked?

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