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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 is Yolo's job at the bowling alley?

2. What do the gringo surfers want?

3. Who is quoted in the Epigraph?

4. Who are Nayeli's best friends?

5. Which title does Tacho have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Nayeli finally admit she wants to bring home with her?

2. What do Nayeli and her friends do at the cove?

3. What is Veronica like?

4. Why do the older women in the village doubt Irma for office?

5. Who drives by the bus shooting guns?

6. How does the group of four friends fund their trip?

7. What does Nayeli want for her future?

8. What is historic about Irma's election?

9. In Chapter Six, what threat does Irma make toward Garcia-Garcia?

10. What are the bandidos's jobs?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the purpose of Nayeli leaving the postcard for her father? What does it say about Nayeli that she has come this far and does not speak to him?

Essay Topic 2

At the border, what do Rigo's instructions to Tacho say about people's preconceived ideas of wealth and status? How do they use their relationship?

Essay Topic 3

Why does Irma believe life and love are war? How does she try to prepare Nayeli, both physically and emotionally, to be a winner at life?

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