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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 much does Irma pay Nayeli per week?

2. How does the narrator summarize bandidos?

3. Where do Vampi's parents go for work?

4. What does the narco hope to acquire?

5. How is Tacho's business doing in Chapter Three?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the story of The Seven Samurai?

2. What does Nayeli want for her future?

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

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

5. What is historic about Irma's election?

6. How does Nayeli's mother make her living in Chapter Three?

7. Why is corn so expensive in Chapter Two?

8. Who drives by the bus shooting guns?

9. What is crabbing?

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

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

The girls are disgusted by the filth of the area Porfirio and Araceli live in. What makes them calm down and feel happier? Why is the couple generous when they have so little?

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