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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a gambling game?

2. Where does Carlos' ship dock in America?

3. Where does Carlos find Jose?

4. Who tells Carlos to head to Stockton?

5. What develops in Carlos as a direct result of his family losing its land?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Carlos leave the homeless shelter?

2. What must Carlos take before he can board the boat to America?

3. What profession does Carlos now wish to follow as he leaves with his cousin?

4. Why is Jose arrested?

5. What event makes Carlos' desire to be a doctor more concrete for him?

6. What does Carlos call the turning point in his life?

7. Why does Miss Strandon arrange for Carlos' job at the library?

8. Why does Marian give Carlos several hundred dollars?

9. Why doesn't Carlos' father think the stranger walking toward their home could be his son, Leon?

10. How does Carlos convince Amado that he is indeed his brother?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay describing the mobile nature of the immigrants during the time frame of this novel. Compare it to today's mobile society. Use examples from the novel to support your essay.

Essay Topic 2

Justify the decision of Amado and Macario to join the armed services to Carlos in an essay.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay about how this novel may have been written significantly differently if it had been written from a different viewpoint. Explain why and how these differences might occur.

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