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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eddie’s mother and aunt try to convince Eddie to date a girl named what in Chapter 3?
(a) Norma.
(b) Gloria.
(c) Dolores.
(d) Belinda.

2. Eddie is accused of saying bad words by a child riding what in Chapter 3?
(a) A tricycle.
(b) A skateboard.
(c) A unicycle.
(d) A bicycle.

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

4. Eddie compares his apartment as being “as quiet” as what and “just as smelly” in Chapter 4?
(a) A block of cheese.
(b) A landfill.
(c) A shoe.
(d) A fox.

5. José tells the man selling onions that he will buy how many sacks in Chapter 4?
(a) 3.
(b) 8.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

6. When was author Gary Soto born?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1940.

7. What does Eddie leave at Mr. Stiles’s residence when he does not return in Chapter 2?
(a) His hat.
(b) His tools.
(c) His wallet.
(d) His bike.

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

9. What term is used as reference to U.S. citizens of Mexican descent?
(a) Senior.
(b) Chicano.
(c) El timbre.
(d) Hombre.

10. What is Eddie’s principle mode of transportation in the novel?
(a) Walking.
(b) A car.
(c) The bus.
(d) His bike.

11. Eddie’s aunt tells him that who will help him achieve the action she wants him to do in Chapter 2?
(a) Larry.
(b) Samuel.
(c) Angel.
(d) Lupe.

12. What does Eddie ask his mother and aunt to do as he leaves his apartment in Chapter 3?
(a) Lock up when they leave.
(b) Pay his phone bill.
(c) Leave him alone.
(d) Say hello to his uncle.

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

14. What term refers to mental diversion by means of entertainment or recreation?
(a) Culturalism.
(b) Misogyny.
(c) Anthropology.
(d) Escape.

15. When Eddie’s mother and aunt visit him in Chapter 3, they immediately begin searching his kitchen for what?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Tortillas.
(d) Cat food.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what area of the city is Eddie’s apartment, as described in Chapter 1?

2. The girl who calls Eddie in Chapter 3 invites him to come to her house to do what?

3. What does Eddie spot across the street from the breakfast café in Chapter 4?

4. What does Eddie refer to his mother and aunt as in Chapter 3?

5. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that will come later in the story?

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