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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. How does the narrator summarize bandidos?

2. How much does Irma win the election by?

3. What does the narco hope to acquire?

4. Who took over Garcia-Garcia's house?

5. What does Tacho give to people who voted?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Irma remind Nayeli of when she takes her to the bus terminal?

2. What are the bandidos's jobs?

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

4. What is crabbing?

5. What is Veronica like?

6. What does Irma do at the market that embarrasses the girls?

7. Which groups have tried to convert the villagers?

8. Who drives by the bus shooting guns?

9. In Chapter Five, what shocks Irma about pinto beans?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is it about the clothing Nayeli sees in the muck by the border that fills her with dread? What do you think she imagines happened? Does she realize how serious her situation is?

Essay Topic 2

Nayeli has graduated and is a champion futbolista, so why does she feel she does not have options? What does she think is out of her reach and how does it make her feel?

Essay Topic 3

What fears do the mothers and grandmothers in the village have about the girls going on their journey? What does it say about Irma that she uses herself as an example?

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