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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technical skill was Eddie studying before dropping out of school?
(a) Almond farming.
(b) Swimming pool installer.
(c) Air conditioning repair.
(d) Computer programming.

2. What aunt brings Eddie food in Chapter 2?
(a) Delores.
(b) Gloria.
(c) Belinda.
(d) Norma.

3. Most of the residents of Eddie’s neighborhood are descended from what heritage?
(a) Canadian.
(b) Mexican.
(c) Irish.
(d) Russian

4. Chapter 2 ends with Eddie saying that the "east was one large bruise that was slowly becoming” what?
(a) “The night.”
(b) “Winter.”
(c) "Infected."
(d) “Healed.”

5. When was the novel Buried Onions published?
(a) 1991.
(b) 2003.
(c) 1997.
(d) 2008.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest?

2. What term is used as reference to U.S. citizens of Mexican descent?

3. Eddie believes that the students at the local college who are studying to be what are the lucky ones in Chapter 1?

4. What does Eddie leave at Mr. Stiles’s residence when he does not return in Chapter 2?

5. What is the narrative point-of-view of Buried Onions?

(see the answer key)

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