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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. What word in "Bravery As If it Were My Own" refers to "Pig intestines boiled in blood and soy sauce" (264)?

3. Who is driving Jay and Grace back to their grandparents' home in "To Resurrect"?

4. Who was the girl that turned Jay down when he asked her to the prom?

5. What does Tito Maning do when Jay confronts him in "The Darkness Uninterrupted"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Jay come to hope for the best in “A Complete Waste"?

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

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

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

6. Where do Jay and Grace go in “New Life"? Why?

7. How is Lolo and Lola's home described in “Bravery as if it Were my Own"?

8. How and when did Jun leave Reyna?

9. What is the outcome of Jay's confrontation with Tito Maning in “That Last Part Aloud"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the setting of Tito Chato and Tito Ines's home. Where do they live in relation to Tito Maning? How is their home different than Maning's? How does their home reflect upon them and their lifestyles?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the plot structure of Patron Saints of Nothing. What is the inciting incident in this story? Where does the climax occur? What information is related to the reader in the falling action and denouement?

Essay Topic 3

Examine and discuss journalism and the quest for truth as themes/motifs in Patron Saints of Nothing. What characters in the novel are connected to these themes? How do these characters influence Jay? How does the meaning of truth change for Jay in the course of the novel?

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