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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Eddie leave at Mr. Stiles’s house along with a note in Chapter 3?
(a) The truck keys.
(b) Money.
(c) A gift.
(d) A newspaper.

2. Who does José tell Eddie to call after they leave the restaurant in Chapter 4?
(a) Mr. Stiles.
(b) Gloria.
(c) Eddie's Mother.
(d) Angel.

3. What is the name of Eddie’s aunt who brings him tortillas every day in Chapter 1?
(a) Belinda.
(b) Gloria.
(c) Delores.
(d) Norma.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What refers to an object, action, or idea that represents something other than itself, often of a more abstract nature?

4. When he is given a special task by Mr. Stiles in Chapter 2, Eddie is overjoyed that Mr. Stiles trusts him to borrow what?

5. What is a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes Eddie’s sense of fear in Chapter 1?

2. What do Eddie and José find when they stop to pick up onions after eating in Chapter 4?

3. Who does Eddie believe will have brighter futures as described in Chapter 1? Why?

4. How is the Spanish term “barrio” defined and described in Chapter 1?

5. Where does Eddie work in Chapter 1? How is this neighborhood described?

6. How is Eddie’s neighborhood described in Chapter 1?

7. How does Eddie respond to the news about Jesús’s murder in Chapter 4?

8. What information about Jesús’s murder does Eddie learn in the beginning of Chapter 4?

9. Who do Eddie’s aunt and mother try to get him to date in Chapter 3?

10. What background information does the author establish regarding Eddie’s past and the people he has lost in Chapter 1?

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