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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 6, what aftershave did Papa put on Francisco's face?

2. In Chapter 8, what color shorts did Francisco's P.E. teacher wear?

3. In Chapter 8, what pants did Roberto wear to his first day of high school?

4. In Chapter 6, what did Francisco score on his social studies test on the United States Consitution?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 10 in the fall, what job did Papa get?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what did Francisco miss when he and Roberto were alone in their house without their family?

2. How did Francisco and Roberto learn to dance in Chapter 3?

3. In Chapter 4, how did a curandera heal Francisco's father's back?

4. In Chapter 5, what did Francisco do to deal with the boredom of picking strawberries?

5. In Chapter 1, why did Roberto and Francisco go back to the United States alone?

6. In Chapter 6, how did Francisco and his classmates practice for their eighth grade graduation?

7. In Chapter 8, what did Francisco decide to memorize and why?

8. In Chapter 8, what classes was Mr. Kinkade, Francisco's counselor, going to put Francisco in, and why did he change his mind?

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

10. In Chapter 9, how did Francisco get athlete's foot?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Francisco named the chapters in his book. Did the chapter titles reveal what was going to happen in a chapter? Would the chapter titles be considered spoilers?

Essay Topic 3

In life and in school, Francisco and his family sometimes were given a second chance. What were some instances where Francisco and his family were given a second chance? How did those second chances affect their lives? How would their lives have been different without those chances?

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