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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In literature, what refers to the inherent incompatibility between the objectives of two or more characters or forces?
(a) Denouement.
(b) Exposition.
(c) Directive.
(d) Conflict.

2. What had Eddie returned to City College to do in Chapter 3?
(a) Use the computers.
(b) Talk to a professor.
(c) Sell his textbooks.
(d) Enroll in more classes.

3. When Eddie returns to his apartment after leaving Mr. Stiles’s home in Chapter 3, his mother and what aunt arrive for a visit?
(a) Dolores.
(b) Gloria.
(c) Belinda.
(d) Norma.

4. What pests inhabit Eddie’s apartment much to his chagrin in the novel?
(a) Cockroaches.
(b) Ants.
(c) Howler monkeys.
(d) Rats.

5. What term refers to a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest?
(a) Cataclysm.
(b) Denouement.
(c) Rising action.
(d) Exposition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Eddie’s principle mode of transportation in the novel?

2. When was author Gary Soto born?

3. Chapter 2 ends with Eddie saying that the "east was one large bruise that was slowly becoming” what?

4. What institution did Eddie recently drop out of in the beginning of the novel?

5. What does Eddie ask his mother and aunt to do as he leaves his apartment in Chapter 3?

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