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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

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) Denouement.
(b) Cataclysm.
(c) Exposition.
(d) Rising action.

2. What literary term refers to the use of “onions” in the novel?
(a) Antagonist.
(b) Motif.
(c) Protagonist.
(d) Catalyst.

3. What Spanish word is used in the novel meaning district or neighborhood?
(a) Barrio.
(b) Comadre.
(c) Cholitos.
(d) Gordito.

4. What is the playground in the barrio where kids play, and where gangsters recruit new members?
(a) Smith Park
(b) Mason Playground.
(c) Rodgers Park.
(d) Holmes Playground.

5. What item does Eddie spot and take with him while running an errand for Mr. Stiles in Chapter 2?
(a) A television.
(b) A refrigerator.
(c) An air conditioner.
(d) A vacuum cleaner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Spanish word from Chapter 7 means to look or view?

2. Gabriel García Márquez is known affectionately by what name throughout Latin America?

3. What branch of the military has José joined in Chapter 4?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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