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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Manny arrived home and his mother told him to stop blocking the television, what had Manny been sure she had been about to ask him to do?
(a) Wash the dishes.
(b) Sweep the patio.
(c) Scrub the floor.
(d) Fold the laundry.

2. Where did Rebecca tell Magda to go once she and Manny had returned home from the pool hall?
(a) In the back bedroom to watch Pedi.
(b) To their neighbor Sophie's house.
(c) To her friend Linda's house.
(d) To the pool hall.

3. About how many people started running when the Immigration vans showed up at the pepper fields?
(a) 40.
(b) 80.
(c) 30.
(d) 20.

4. Why did Nardo get fired from his busboy job?
(a) He broke some dishes.
(b) He dated the boss's daughter without permission.
(c) He came late too many times.
(d) He danced with a guest.

5. How did Manny's father lose his job as a translator for the city?
(a) He quit because of unfair pay.
(b) He called in sick too many times.
(c) He was laid off due to governmental cutbacks.
(d) He drank beer during lunch and came back to work slurring his words.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had the Garcia brothers done to make Manny's father so mad at them?

2. What did Manny mean when he said, "I was of my grandpa Ignacio's line of useful blood?" (6)

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

4. Once the Immigration officers had departed with their prisoners, what did everyone left claim they had done to help the Mexican people?

5. What did Manny say was the true reason Rebecca had gone to Sophie's to get her hair done?

(see the answer key)

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