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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Manny certain that Lencho would not beat him up for teasing him from across the school yard?
(a) Because he knew Lencho would not jeopardize his chances of getting Nardo onto his boxing team.
(b) Because he knew that Lencho was afraid of Nardo.
(c) Because he knew that Lencho would not risk getting suspended before the big fight.
(d) Because he knew that Lencho had a good sense of humor.

2. What did Nardo do just before he went to bed on the night he climbed into the bedroom window?
(a) He asked Manny if they should to visit Grandma Rosa soon.
(b) He stared at himself in the mirror.
(c) He told Manny that he had gotten a job.
(d) He kissed Manny good night.

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

4. Who gave Rebecca a cup of coffee while she was sitting in the hospital waiting room?
(a) The lady whose husband had been injured by a passing truck.
(b) The receptionist.
(c) Manny.
(d) Magda.

5. What emotion did Manny realize the hospital receptionist's sighs about Magda's condition really signified?
(a) Sympathy.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Embarrassment.
(d) Disapproval.

6. 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 if he thought Magda would go out on a date with him.
(b) Lencho asked Manny if he knew what was inside the white teacher's classroom.
(c) Lencho asked Manny to ask his brother Nardo to join Lencho's boxing team.
(d) Lencho came to confront Manny for saying nasty things about Lencho behind his back.

7. After Manny slipped out of Grandma Rosa's wake, what kind of tree did he climb?
(a) A mulberry tree.
(b) An oak tree.
(c) A cherry tree.
(d) A cactus.

8. What unusual items did Lencho mention that Miss Van der Meer had in her classroom?
(a) Microscopes.
(b) Boom boxes.
(c) Couches.
(d) Beanbag chairs.

9. 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) Her pain got intolerable.
(b) Her fever rose higher than the doctor had said it would.
(c) She could not talk.
(d) She began to bleed again.

10. How much did Manuel pay a lawyer in order to make the police return his rifle?
(a) $150.
(b) $50.
(c) $200.
(d) $100.

11. What drink did Nardo go inside Grandma Rosa's to get when he and Manny were almost done with the yard work at Grandma Rosa's house?
(a) Lemonade.
(b) Water.
(c) Kool-Aid.
(d) Coca-Cola.

12. What action did Rebecca finally take when Manny kept insisting that they needed to take Magda back to the hospital?
(a) She went to get Manuel's car keys.
(b) She woke up Manuel to ask his advice.
(c) She woke up Nardo to ask his advice.
(d) She hit the side of Manny's head with her cupped hand.

13. What feature did Grandma Rosa say that each of her neighbors' houses had sported before they had all moved away to have their houses torn down?
(a) A garden.
(b) A picket fence.
(c) A porch swing.
(d) A fountain.

14. What happened inside the restroom when Manny and Rebecca carried Magda in so she could relieve herself?
(a) Magda fainted on the floor.
(b) The fire alarm went off.
(c) The receptionist came in and told them they could not all be in there together.
(d) Rebecca slipped on the floor and fell down.

15. What question did Malcolm Augustus, Chico's opponent, know the answer to when no one else in Manny's biology class had known?
(a) How many eggs a toad lays on average.
(b) How many apheds can fit on a single rose.
(c) How many stars there are in the sky.
(d) How much blood flows during the average woman's menstrual cycle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Grandma Rosa's cat?

2. What did Manny use to keep Pedi occupied while he was watching her during Magda's date with her secret boyfriend?

3. What was inside the pinata that held the candies and chocolates that burst forth when Rebecca hit it as a child?

4. Who woke up Nardo and Manny and told them to go do yard work at Grandma Rosa's house?

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

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