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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. In Chapter 7, what did Ito usually wear?

2. In Chapter 4, when did Roberto and Francisco expect their family would return?

3. In Chapter 3, in what subject did Francisco do well?

4. In Chapter 8, when did Francisco start high school?

5. In Chapter 4, how was Francisco's father's back healed?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 3, why did Francisco sometimes have the honor of sitting in the first seat in the first row of Mr. Milo's class?

2. In Chapter 1, why did Francisco live in constant fear from the time he was four until he was 14?

3. What happened when Francisco was in eighth grade?

4. In Chapter 2, how did Roberto lose and then get his janitor job back?

5. In Chapter 5, what happened when Francisco's father tried to be a sharecropper?

6. In Chapter 2, how was it for Francisco when he returned to school?

7. In Chapter 10, why did the family fall behind on their rent payments?

8. In Chapter 7, how did Francisco look when his father cut his hair, and how did his mother help him?

9. In Chapter 7, why was Francisco the only one who joined Papa picking strawberries in the summer?

10. In Chapter 9, what happened the morning when Francisco was running a few minutes late for P.E. class?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Francisco had light skin and could have passed as white, but he did not. What discrimination did Francisco face as a Mexican immigrant? Why did he not try to pass as white to avoid that discrimination? How did he embrace his Mexican heritage?

Essay Topic 2

Francisco’s life was very difficult, but he had dreams that kept him moving forward. What were Francisco’s dreams? Who encouraged him and helped him to follow his dreams? How was Francisco able to obtain his dreams?

Essay Topic 3

Francisco was very close to his family. How did the family need one another just to survive? Why was family so important to each one of them?

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