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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the final section of the story?
(a) Come Out Like a Worm
(b) While You Were Gone
(c) Aurora
(d) Happiness is Bliss

2. What is the name of Aurora's child?
(a) Lucero
(b) Leonardo
(c) Romeo
(d) Fernando

3. What is the name of the narrator's friend?
(a) Slash
(b) Cut
(c) Jan
(d) Peet

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

5. What does Rafa pull off Ysrael's face?
(a) His hat
(b) His mask
(c) His glasses
(d) His fake moustache

6. What part of the narrator's body is cut when he wakes up?
(a) His eye
(b) His chin
(c) His cheek
(d) His nose

7. What state is Yunior's father living in?
(a) New York
(b) Florida
(c) Colorado
(d) California

8. What kind of people do Yunior and his friends like to abuse?
(a) Blacks
(b) Rich kids
(c) Homosexuals
(d) Jews

9. What does the narrator call his father?
(a) Pa
(b) Papi
(c) Papa
(d) Daddy

10. What does Yunior imagine his father tracing on his cheek?
(a) A circle
(b) A triangle
(c) The letter Y
(d) A square

11. What does the narrator compare his girlfriend's skinniness to?
(a) A rake
(b) A bulemic
(c) A twelve year old
(d) A pole

12. What part of America do the family move to?
(a) Mississppi
(b) New Jersey
(c) New York
(d) Colorado

13. What is the name of the second section of the story?
(a) Oh well
(b) One of our nights
(c) Dealing
(d) Working day

14. What is the name of the second short story?
(a) The beating
(b) Party Mode
(c) Fiesta
(d) Siesta

15. Which of the following type of food do they not serve at the party?
(a) Kim chi
(b) Fried chicken
(c) Fried cheese
(d) Avocado

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yunior call his mother?

2. Who does the narrator say smells likes the wind through a tree?

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

4. Where does Ysrael tell the boys they can find something to drink?

5. What does Yunior say he now does instead of shoplifting?

(see the answer keys)

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