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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Brew drop on one of the boys' faces?

2. What does Louie leave New York to do?

3. What does Piri tell his father he has been pretending to be?

4. How does Ricardo claim he is related to Piri?

5. What does the gang have to buy in this section?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Piri get off heroin?

2. Why must Piri and Brew sit at the back of the bus?

3. What work does Piri find in Section 7?

4. How does the prison guard, Casey, react to Piri and Little fighting?

5. What do Piri and his family say to each other the next morning?

6. What does Piri's father tell him in at breakfast in Section 5?

7. What does Piri think the girl who rubbed against him on the train said to her friends?

8. What are Brew and Piri's opinion of Gerald?

9. Why does Brew think the term "boy" is acceptable?

10. Why does Little say he did not throw more punches at Piri's midsection?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Outline Piri's prison routine How do the students think this routine benefited Piri? How did Piri make the most of his days?

Essay Topic 2

Examine Piri's time in prison.

1) What concessions did Piri have to make in prison to survive?

2) How did prison change Piri?

3) What kind of person do the students think Piri would have become if he had not gone to prison?

Essay Topic 3

Compare the treatment of Puerto Ricans to African Americans in American society.

1) What is the history of Puerto Ricans in American society?

2) What is the history of African Americans in American society?

3) What evidence is there to prove that Puerto Ricans have been treated better in American society in the mid 20th century?

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