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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of photos does Yunior have of his father?
(a) Sepia photos
(b) Polaroids
(c) Black and white photos
(d) Color photos

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

4. What part of Ysrael's body did the pig eat off?
(a) His arm
(b) His face
(c) His foot
(d) His hand

5. What does Yunior say he now does instead of shoplifting?
(a) Drink
(b) Watch TV
(c) Date
(d) Take drugs

6. What does Yunior remember his father wearing?
(a) Orange jeans
(b) A red scarf
(c) A pink hat
(d) Yellow socks

7. Who is the narrator's girlfriend making out with when he wakes up?
(a) Beto
(b) Papi
(c) Rafa
(d) Cut

8. What does Rafa cal his father's beatings?
(a) Collateral damage
(b) The hand of God
(c) The devil's hand
(d) A learning curve

9. What kind of animal attacked Ysrael?
(a) Tiger
(b) Bull
(c) Pig
(d) Dog

10. What country is Ysrael going to get his face operated on?
(a) Germany
(b) America
(c) Australia
(d) Britain

11. Who does the narrator say smells likes the wind through a tree?
(a) Papi
(b) Rafa
(c) Mami
(d) Ysrael

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

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

14. What did Yunior and Beto used to do at the mall?
(a) Read
(b) Pick up women
(c) Shoplift
(d) Sell drugs

15. How does Rafa learn to read?
(a) At work
(b) At church
(c) By himself
(d) At school

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the aunt tell the narrator to do when he has finished eating?

2. What does Rafa hit Ysrael with?

3. What country is the first story set in?

4. What has the narrator lived without for the first nine years of his life?

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

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