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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Virgil’s father plant?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Tomatoes.
(c) Onions.
(d) Lettuce.

2. What is the “Garcia Equation”?
(a) The idea that when you move to the U.S., you get younger the older you are.
(b) The idea that when you move to Mexico, you get younger the older you are.
(c) The estimated growing season for lettuce.
(d) The idea that when you move to Spain, you get younger the older you are.

3. How did Gonzalo learn English?
(a) TV and the playground.
(b) His uncle.
(c) School.
(d) His mother.

4. What did Virgil’s father do in Haiti?
(a) He drove a bus.
(b) He drove an ambulance.
(c) He drove a taxi.
(d) He drove a garbage truck.

5. What does the garden remind Amir of?
(a) A spider web.
(b) His parents’ Persian rug.
(c) The jungle.
(d) A vine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Virgil find in the dirt?

2. What is Tio Juan doing when Gonzalo finds him?

3. Why did Gonzalo’s father make Gonzalo talk to everyone for him?

4. What does Royce and another man build in September?

5. What does Royce do in exchange for food?

(see the answer key)

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