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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was left in the house when Manuel finally came home from his drinking binge?
(a) Manny and Pedi.
(b) Manny and Rebecca.
(c) Manny, Pedi, and Rebecca.
(d) Manny.

2. After Rebecca took Manny out of the pool hall, what did Manny see his father doing when he looked through the window at him?
(a) He saw him crying.
(b) He saw him smash a glass on the floor.
(c) He saw him head to the men's room.
(d) He saw him lean forward on the stool and rub his chin.

3. How did Manny signal to Mr. Hart that he had enough money for school supplies?
(a) He nodded his head.
(b) He mimed writing with a pencil.
(c) He patted his pocket.
(d) He shook his head no.

4. 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) The whole neighborhood would find out they were on welfare.
(c) The money they would get would not be enough to support them anyway.
(d) They would make a copy of his driver's license and it would stay in the welfare office's files.

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

Short Answer 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?

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

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

4. 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?

5. What item did Manny have his eye on that caused him to want to work in the fields to earn money?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Manny mean when he said, "Miracles don't wait for doubters" (8) once Nardo had agreed to come work in the fields with him?

2. How does the theme of domestic violence arise sharply within the scene when Manuel returns from his two-day drinking binge?

3. What is significant about how Rebecca behaved during the scene in which the police came into the Hernandez's home?

4. How is the theme of racism demonstrated within the scene when Manny asks the secretary for his transcripts?

5. What was the main reason Nardo was reluctant to work in the fields?

6. How does the theme of "otherness" emerge within the aftermath of the Immigration officers' removal of the illegal immigrants from the field?

7. Why did Manny travel to his school even though it is still summer?

8. What was the lost job that Nardo missed the most and why?

9. What did Nardo's grandmother mean when she said, "Es muy vivo" about Nardo?

10. What is ironic about Nardo being the one that "jeered at the [Immigration] officers" the loudest as the people were led away and put into vans?

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