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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four, "Aguantando".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has the narrator lived without for the first nine years of his life?
(a) A father
(b) A mother
(c) A car
(d) Money

2. What is a sucia?
(a) A celebration
(b) A mistress
(c) A small apartment
(d) A sweet

3. What does the narrator's aunt give him to eat?
(a) Pastries
(b) Goulash
(c) Mints
(d) Fruit

4. Who writes that he is coming home?
(a) Rafa
(b) Papi
(c) Jose
(d) Grandfather

5. What does Aguantando mean?
(a) Bitterness
(b) Holding on
(c) Fame
(d) Going home

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ysrael doing in the field?

2. What kind of tree did Yunior try to stab?

3. What does Rafa cal his father's beatings?

4. Where does the narrator's mother work?

5. What is the name of the second short story?

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