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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. What does Maria say you cannot eat?

3. Who does Nayeli rally support from for her aunt?

4. What is one of Don Pepe's sayings?

5. Why does the narco think he can make a killing in the town?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the bandidos treat Nayeli?

2. What happened when the peso dropped in value?

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

4. What happens after Nayeli watches The Magnificent Seven?

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

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

7. What is historic about Irma's election?

8. What is crabbing?

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

10. What does Nayeli want for her future?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Chuy take Nayeli under his wing? Would the group have been in more danger if he did not warn them about things? What does Chuy's character balance out?

Essay Topic 2

What does it mean that people in Tres Camarones do not say hello, they say goodbye? Is there a literal as well as a metaphorical meaning to this saying? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

The first few people the girls choose to take home with them do not fit the exact criteria they set. How does this reveal that character is more than a title?

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