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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. Who does Sapo think killed Salazar?

2. What does the man Nazario and Julio meet in Queens tell Nazario about Fischman?

3. Where do Vera and Bodega want Julio to go with them when they show up at his apartment in Part IV?

4. Who does Vega tell the congregation is the personification of love?

5. What does Julio think Vera seems as if she was born to?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened to the neighborhood after Roberto Salazar was found dead?

3. Why does Blanca want to try to get Claudia and Roberto Vega together?

4. Why does Julio go to Queens with Nazario, and what happens there?

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

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

7. Why does no one usually mess with Sapo?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Nazario's role in Willie Bodega's plans for Spanish Harlem? What does Julio think of Nazario? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How and when does Julio piece together the treachery that Vera and Nazario have conspired together to perpetrated against Bodega? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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