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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 did Nayeli's father stop doing?

2. What does Nayeli dream of doing in Chapter Two?

3. Who donates a laptop to Tacho?

4. What does Irma forbid Vampi from wearing?

5. What does Los Yunaites mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nayeli want for her future?

2. Who drives by the bus shooting guns?

3. What were the surfos unprepared for?

4. What happens after Nayeli watches The Magnificent Seven?

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

6. Where are the men in Yolo's family?

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

8. Which groups have tried to convert the villagers?

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

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

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 and Tacho are surprised to be welcomed in Kankakee. What is the communities opinion of Mexicans? How is their experience unique there?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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