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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 pp. 1 - 42.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the name "Malguerida" mean?
(a) "The chosen one".
(b) "The unloved".
(c) "Pure virgin".
(d) "Sinner".

2. What does Tony Baba's grandmother do when a strike is organized against her?
(a) She decides to go out to dinner to chill out.
(b) She fires her workers.
(c) She holds up the workers' salaries.
(d) She closes her business permanently.

3. After he gives up washing cars, what does Loreto do for money?
(a) He rents temporarily to people who need a temporary home,
(b) He teaches Spanish to gringo tourists.
(c) He guards cars at night while their owners visit brothels.
(d) He picks cotton in Texas.

4. What does Tony Baba's mother pay to the writers?
(a) Four dollars a day plus a dozen hot dogs.
(b) Five dollars a day plus 2 loaves of French bread.
(c) Five dollars a day plus 10 chili dogs.
(d) Four dollars and fifty cents a day plus one dozen hot dogs.

5. PILGRIMS IN AZTLAN takes during which decade of the 20th century?
(a) The 60s.
(b) The 80s.
(c) The 50s.
(d) The 70s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Don and Dosa de Cocuch?

2. What tongues does Jes's of Bethlehem seem to speak?

3. Where does the narrator go and what work is he seeking?

4. What tragic thing happens to Chalito, the skinniest of the boys, who washed cars on Loreto's street?

5. Why do children pursue Kite?

(see the answer key)

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