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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word used in Chapter 6 means to burn or reduce to ashes?
(a) Abolish.
(b) Eliminate.
(c) Raze.
(d) Incinerate

3. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that will come later in the story?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Symbol.
(d) Motif.

4. What is among the tortillas brought to Eddie by his aunt in Chapter 2?
(a) A gun.
(b) A few photographs.
(c) A newspaper.
(d) Drugs.

5. What Spanish word from the vocabulary in Chapter 6 refers to a mouse?
(a) Cholitos.
(b) Changos.
(c) Ratoncito.
(d) Comadre.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Spanish word from the vocabulary in Chapter 6 means a scolding or admonishment?

2. What term refers to mental diversion by means of entertainment or recreation?

3. At what institution did Gary Soto earn his M.F.A. in poetry?

4. What is the name of Samuel’s brother in the narrative?

5. The former peer from high school that Eddie encounters in Chapter 6 is described by him as loving what kind of music?

(see the answer key)

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