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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jes's claim the eighth deadly sin is?
(a) Poverty.
(b) War.
(c) Gullibility.
(d) Politics.

2. Who does Chayo rape, stealing her virginity?
(a) A young Chicano girl.
(b) Death.
(c) The daughter of his friend.
(d) The mayor's daughter.

3. One of the two men walking across the desert wants to give up but the other persuades him to continue by telling him what?
(a) That's it's cowardly to give up.
(b) That he won't be able to make the journey alone.
(c) That his father is dying and his wife and children are starving.
(d) That it's too late to turn back.

4. Where do the Foxyes live?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) California.
(c) Maine.
(d) In the U.S. near the border.

5. Which of Lencho's children barely touches the food at the birthday party?
(a) Buzz Saw.
(b) Maria.
(c) Chalito.
(d) Pedro.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of a man is Vate?

2. What unusual physical feature did Papa's grandmother have?

3. Besides the theme of racism, what other theme is used in the book?

4. What is Bethlehem, one of eight Yaqui towns, also called?

5. Lorenzo is what kind of a man?

(see the answer key)

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