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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. How does Nazario refer to the process of Bodega paying for neighborhood students' college tuition?

2. What is Nazario wearing when he comes to see Julio in Round 2?

3. Who is Roberto's older brother?

4. Why is Julio worried Blanca will make a connection between news reports of Salazar's death and Sapo?

5. What does Blanca tell Julio about Negra in Round 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Nazario take Julio to the salsa museum?

2. Why does Mr. Tapia tell Sapo to tell the authorities voices in his head told him to attack Mr. Blessington?

3. Why does Sapo bite Mr. Blessington in high school?

4. What does Vera ask Bodega to teach her that Julio thinks is strange in Part IV?

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

6. Why does no one usually mess with Sapo?

7. Why does Julio think Sapo had something to do with Salazar's death?

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

9. What happens to Julio's and Blanca's apartment in Part IV, and who is there immediately to help them?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Julio's art, and especially his memorial murals, mean to both him and his community of Spanish Harlem? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

Why does Willie Bodega refuse to let most people in Spanish Harlem know what he looks like? Why does Bodega think that anonymity lends him more power, ultimately? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What do you think the Santeria ritual reveals about Willie Bodega and about his feelings for Vera? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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