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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Julio realize about the reason the school is naming the auditorium after Vera?
(a) Bodega must have arranged to make a donation to the school they thought came from Vera.
(b) Vera does not seem to care about the school at all.
(c) Vera wanted the school to name the auditorium after her husband John Vidal.
(d) Vera must have given the school a lot of money.

2. Which poet does Mr. Blessington make Julio's class focus on that none of the students seem to like?
(a) Robert Frost.
(b) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(c) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(d) Richard Mix.

3. Who does Bodega tell Julio was paying Salazar?
(a) Salerno.
(b) Victoria.
(c) Nazario.
(d) Fischman.

4. Who does Nazario say Bodega will take care of first from the fire?
(a) Children.
(b) Married couples.
(c) Men.
(d) Pregnant women and one-parent families.

5. What job does Julio like the least at the grocery store?
(a) Pricing cans.
(b) Working in the alcohol sales section.
(c) Working in the freezer section.
(d) Meat packing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story does Vega tell the congregation at Blanca's church in Round 5?

2. Who tells Julio he is welcome at his club any time just because Julio was seen with Nazario that day?

3. What does Mr. Blessington do to Sapo that angers Sapo in their physical altercation?

4. Which teacher really looked out for Julio and his friends in junior high school?

5. Where does Nazario say he wants Julio to go with him the next day after the fire in Round 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Julio go to Blanca's church in Part IV?

2. How does Nazario get Julio off from work to come to meet Vera?

3. What does Julio think of Vera when he first meets her?

4. Why does Bodega want Julio with him to meet Vera for the first time?

5. What does Julio hope that Blanca does not do in front of him at her church?

6. What do Bodega and Vera try to get Julio to do with them when they show up at his door in Part IV?

7. How does Bodega act around Vera when he first meets her in Part IV?

8. Why is Bodega anxious about the way Julio is dressed going to meet Vera?

9. Why is Blanca suspicious of the new apartment Julio moves them into?

10. Why does Bodega tell Julio he had Salazar killed?

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