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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 kind of drugs do the boys sell?
(a) Cocaine
(b) Speed
(c) Heroin
(d) Weed

2. What game do the kids play at the party?
(a) Hide and seek
(b) Dominos
(c) Poker
(d) Baccarat

3. What room does the narrator have to guard for his brother?
(a) The dining room
(b) The bedroom
(c) The lounge
(d) The bathroom

4. What time of the year do the two boys visit their uncle?
(a) Summer
(b) Christmas
(c) Easter
(d) Autumn

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character becomes loud and argumentative at the party?

2. What is Cut eating on the way home?

3. Why do the school kids share their books with the poor kids at a distance?

4. What is the name of Yunior's friend?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the reader know about Papi from the other stories?

2. In what condition is the narrator's girlfriend?

3. How did Ysrael disfigure his face?

4. How does Papi try to prevent the narrator from eating at the party?

5. Why did the narrator and his brother spend their summers with their uncle?

6. Who do the narrator and Cut sell drugs to?

7. How does the narrator feel when his girlfriend is released from the juvenile hall?

8. Why does Papi push his way to the shower as soon as he arrives home?

9. How does Rafa treat his brother in the city?

10. What does Papi tell Mami on the phone?

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