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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Manny's $20 located when Manuel took it from him?
(a) In his shirt pocket.
(b) In his shoe.
(c) In his pants pocket.
(d) In his hand.

2. What was the main reason Lencho came over to talk to Manny during lunch on the first day he did so?
(a) Lencho asked Manny to ask his brother Nardo to join Lencho's boxing team.
(b) Lencho asked Manny if he knew what was inside the white teacher's classroom.
(c) Lencho asked Manny if he thought Magda would go out on a date with him.
(d) Lencho came to confront Manny for saying nasty things about Lencho behind his back.

3. What analogy did Manny use to describe how little attention Miss Van der Meer paid to him?
(a) "She paid us less mind than a turtle would pay to scratches on the top of its own shell" (114).
(b) "She paid us less mind than a hen would pay to her broken egg" (114).
(c) "She paid us less mind than she would a bit of toilet paper on her shoe" (114).
(d) "She paid us less mind than she would a wad of chewing gum stuck on the sidewalk" (114).

4. What part of the dead loved one's body did Manny's family believe the mourners should touch at the funeral?
(a) The top of the head.
(b) The neck.
(c) The hand.
(d) The face.

5. What symptom did Magda exhibit the night they got back from the hospital that made Rebecca wonder if they should take her back to the hospital?
(a) She could not talk.
(b) Her pain got intolerable.
(c) Her fever rose higher than the doctor had said it would.
(d) She began to bleed again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What occasions did Manny mention were the only times he had been to the middle-class neighborhoods across town?

2. What did Mr. Hart write on the paper bag during his meeting with Manny in his office?

3. Why did Rebecca keep looking back over her shoulder when she was taking Manny home from the pool hall?

4. What did Manuel exclaim when he first arrived home from the Pool Hall after a two-day binge?

5. What did Manny list as Nardo's sole physical flaw?

(see the answer key)

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