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

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 quit because of unfair pay.
(c) He called in sick too many times.
(d) He drank beer during lunch and came back to work slurring his words.

2. What was one reason Manny's dad did NOT cite when listing why he would not agree to apply for welfare?
(a) They would make a copy of his driver's license and it would stay in the welfare office's files.
(b) The whole neighborhood would find out they were on welfare.
(c) Social workers would visit their home and treat them like criminals.
(d) The money they would get would not be enough to support them anyway.

3. 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 them to bribe the Immigration officers.
(b) They claimed that they had warned the Mexicans earlier in the day that there was a possibility of a raid.
(c) They claimed that they had told the people to run when they saw the first van.
(d) They claimed that they had encouraged the Mexicans not to run.

4. Besides his drinking, what was the other reason Manny's mother hated for Manny's father to go to the pool hall?
(a) She said that milk drained into the gutter.
(b) She said that he wasted time he could have been looking for a job.
(c) She said that he could have been at home helping her with chores.
(d) She said that he flirted with other women.

5. Though Manny described the houses in their project development as being not "pretty or stylish" (23) he said that sometimes they had one quality that made them beautiful. What was that one quality?
(a) In the summer, the lawn sprinklers gave their yards a festive atmosphere.
(b) In the fall, the golden leaves turned their yards brilliant colors.
(c) In the winter, the mulberry trees lost their leaves and gave a stately air to the houses' yards.
(d) In the spring, the grass was green and abundant.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Manny's mother pressed her hands down onto Manny's shoulders, what was the scent coming from her hands?

2. Who watched Pedi while Manny and Rebecca went to the pool hall to try and get Manuel to return home?

3. As Manny's father walked away from the car that would not start, what did Bobby and Stinky do to annoy him?

4. 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?

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

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