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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 kind of beer does Jay drink in "Everyone Loses Their Shit"?
(a) Gold Eagle.
(b) San Miguel.
(c) Cerveza Negra.
(d) Red Horse.

2. Who is driving Jay and Grace back to their grandparents' home in "To Resurrect"?
(a) Lolo.
(b) Tito Maning.
(c) Tito Danilo.
(d) Tita Ami.

3. Whose daughter is the girl in Reyna's tenement in “A Universe Where People Do Not Die for Doing What Is Right”?
(a) A roommate's daughter.
(b) Jun's daughter.
(c) Her sister's daughter.
(d) Her daughter.

4. Who wrote the book Selections from the Prison Notebooks that Jay sees among Jun's possessions in "This Poem is a Typhoon"?
(a) Antonio Gramsci.
(b) Carlos Bulosan.
(c) Ibram X. Kendi.
(d) Richard Brockman.

5. After Jun had been staying with his aunts for about a year, Tito Maning called them to say he had missed school for how long, according to their story in "Fail Him in Death"?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 3 weeks.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 3 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Tita Ines remark there are none of at the beach where they take Jay in "To Flood"?

2. What drug did Tito Maning find in Jun's room when he kicked him out?

3. Where do Jay's grandparents live?

4. Mia says in "Let's Do It" that the Philippines is the only country in the world where it is still illegal to do what, in "Let's Do It"?

5. Why does Jay not tell his aunts about Reyna's story in "Everyone Loses Their Shit"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Jun go after his father kicked him out of his home? For how long did he stay there?

2. When was Reyna separated from her family? How and why did this happen?

3. Where are Jay and Tito Maning when Jay confronts his uncle about Jun's death in “That Last Part Aloud"? Why is this significant?

4. How is Reyna's home described in “A Universe Where People Do Not Die for Doing the Right Thing"?

5. Who does Maning regard as the greatest of Filipino leaders? Why is this significant?

6. What poem is discussed in “This Poem is a Typhoon"? How does the poem affect Jay?

7. Why is Jay's memory/flashback significant in “Headfirst Across the Muddy Grass"?

8. Where do Jay and Mia go in “The Wide Eyes of the Lost"? Who goes with them?

9. What arrangements has Mia made in “Let’s Do It"?

10. How does Maning respond when he is confronted by Jay and Grace in “The Darkness Interrupted"?

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