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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 are Rafa and the older kids doing in the bedroom?

2. What does Yunior hope the kids don't ask from him at the mall?

3. What kind of photos does Yunior have of his father?

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

5. What part of Ysrael's body did the pig eat off?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rafa beat up Ysrael?

2. How does Ysrael try to help the two boys?

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

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

5. How does the narrator spend the evening with his girlfriend?

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

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

8. What is chapter four about?

9. Why is Mami afraid of living in her apartment?

10. How did security catch Beto and Yunior shoplifting?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pick a character from the book and discuss their goals and motives. Do they achieve their motive? Do they share similar goals and motives with other characters? Do their goals clash with other characters? How do the characters goals and motives affect their interaction with each other?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss elements of the narrative structure of the stories; Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's themes?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Yunior's upbringing has effected one of the following areas in his life.

1) Work.

2) Social life.

3) Intimate relationships.

4) Family.

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