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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 is Tacho's business doing in Chapter Three?

2. Which Americans are the friends obsessed with?

3. Where does Garcia-Garcia ask to stay?

4. What is the title of Part One?

5. What movie inspires Nayeli's plan?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Veronica like?

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

5. What is historic about Irma's election?

6. What is crabbing?

7. What are the bandidos's jobs?

8. What do the two bandidos argue about?

9. What happens after Nayeli watches The Magnificent Seven?

10. What were the surfos unprepared for?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Irma is elected, she declares that a new age is dawning. What does Irma believe she can accomplish for her community? Is the reader inclined to support her?

Essay Topic 2

Why do the four friends keep walking along the border fence when they know there is no magic pathway through? How does the author show the state of mind that they are in?

Essay Topic 3

Why do the four friends trust Porfirio and Araceli when they invite them to stay over? Should they trust anyone? What is the couple a symbol of?

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