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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. What was Magda's reply when she came back from her date and Manny asked her why her hair was messy?
(a) She said she needed a haircut.
(b) She said it was windy outside.
(c) She said she had been kissing a boy.
(d) She said she had lost her bobby pins.

2. What did Miss Van der Meer do when she realized Manny did not understand her literary reference to Hotspur?
(a) She jogged his memory about the book's reference since she knew all freshmen had read it.
(b) She said it did not matter and told Manny to forget it.
(c) She told him the plot of the story she had been referencing.
(d) She brought him into her classroom and read from a literary work.

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

4. Where did Manny suspect that the bullet had lodged when he had narrowly missed accidentally shooting Pedi?
(a) In the windowsill.
(b) In the living room ceiling beam.
(c) In the closet ceiling.
(d) In the cooler shaft.

5. What part of Malcolm's body did Chico run into that knocked him unconscious?
(a) His elbow.
(b) His chest.
(c) His head.
(d) His knee.

Short Answer Questions

1. What unusual items did Lencho mention that Miss Van der Meer had in her classroom?

2. 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?

3. Why did Manny and Albert sit outside to eat even though it was too cold for most students to do so?

4. What happened inside the restroom when Manny and Rebecca carried Magda in so she could relieve herself?

5. When Magda went to meet a boy behind the house and Rebecca was putting things away at Grandma Rosa's and Manny stayed home to watch Pedi, where was Manuel?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Manny's act of nearly shooting his little sister Pedi play into the novel's theme regarding the power of choice?

2. Manny relates that his maternal grandfather died a few years back. What was his grandfather's health like before he died?

3. Why was Manny particularly concerned about his parents finding out about Nardo getting drunk and sneaking back into the house?

4. How does the way in which the hospital receptionist treated the Hernandez family highlight the theme of same-race discrimination?

5. How does Miss Van der Meer's classroom represent the theme of racial inequality?

6. What made Chico want to back out of his scheduled boxing match at the last minute?

7. When Magda came home and her family rushed her to the hospital, what symptoms was she exhibiting and to what prognosis did her symptoms point?

8. Why was it so important to Miguel that Lencho win the boxing match against Boise?

9. Though at first Rebecca claimed it was their lack of money that was keeping her from taking Magda back to the hospital after her fever kept rising, what did she finally admit was the real reason?

10. Why did Manuel assume that Grandma Rosa's house would go to Rebecca and what were his plans for it when that happened?

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