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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Manny and his mother were watching Manny's father trying to start the car, what was Manny's little sister Pedi doing?
(a) Erasing sparrow tracks from the dusty porch.
(b) Asking her father to take her with him to the pool hall.
(c) Studying a caterpillar in her hands.
(d) Playing Jacks on the porch.

2. 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 encouraged the Mexicans not to run.
(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 told them to bribe the Immigration officers.

3. Which item of Manny's clothing caused him embarrassment during his meeting with Mr. Hart at the school?
(a) His hat.
(b) His shoes.
(c) His belt.
(d) His pants.

4. When Manuel was trying to shoot Rebecca, what alerted Manny to the fact that the police had arrived?
(a) Police lights.
(b) The sound of deeply-threaded tires against asphalt.
(c) Sophie screaming that the police were coming.
(d) Police sirens.

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

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

3. 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?

4. What meaning did Manuel ascribe to the note that Rebecca had left him about going to get her hair done at Sophie's?

5. Though kids were not allowed at the pool hall, where was Manny sometimes allowed to sit in order to wait for his dad?

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