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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What caused Manny to curse while in the back seat of the car after the family had picked up Manny's father from the pool hall?
(a) He saw the Garcia brothers running toward the car.
(b) He burned his arm on the car door.
(c) He remembered that he had left his quarter inside the pool hall.
(d) He got mad at his father for staying too long at the pool hall.

3. In contrast to Manny's father's method of worrying aloud, Manny said his mother was more quiet and would take which two actions while she worried?
(a) She would glare at Manny's father and tap her foot.
(b) She would bite her nails and look at the sky.
(c) She would lie down on the couch and refuse to move.
(d) She would give the family the silent treatment and throw herself into housework.

4. What happened to make the 20 people still standing in the fields raise a cheer?
(a) Two of the Immigration vans ran into one another.
(b) Some of the illegal aliens seemed to have gotten away by hiding within the cornstalks.
(c) Nardo shouted an insult at the foreman for letting the Immigration officers onto the property.
(d) One of the Immigration officers tripped and fell on his face in the field.

5. Once the Immigration officers had departed with their prisoners, what did everyone left claim they had done to help the Mexican people?
(a) They claimed that they had told the people to run when they saw the first van.
(b) They claimed that they had told them to bribe the Immigration officers.
(c) They claimed that they had encouraged the Mexicans not to run.
(d) They claimed that they had warned the Mexicans earlier in the day that there was a possibility of a raid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Manny decide to head back home after his altercation with the Garcia brothers was over?

2. Why did Nardo get fired from his busboy job?

3. What location was Manny's father's favorite place in the world?

4. When the foreman assigned a chili pepper row to Manny and Nardo, why had it not been chosen by anyone else?

5. 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?

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