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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 did Mama do during the day after leaving Ito's land?
(a) Cooked food.
(b) Made clothing.
(c) Cleaned houses.
(d) Tended the children.

2. What kind of book did the Orosi school play a game with?
(a) Atlases.
(b) The dictionary.
(c) Journals.
(d) The encyclopedias.

3. What lie did Papa tell his kids to tell?
(a) They are older than 10.
(b) They don't know where Mama is.
(c) They were born in California.
(d) They go to school.

4. What did Francisco get to do during the summer?
(a) Go to school.
(b) Work.
(c) All of these.
(d) Play.

5. Where was Ito from?
(a) Vietnam.
(b) Korea.
(c) Japan.
(d) China.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gabriel trade for a taquito?

2. What did Papa always do while he took his nightly medicine?

3. What did the parrot do when it got angry?

4. Why did Papa want to move to Orosi?

5. What subject was Francisco great in at Bonetti Ranch?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Orosi home get destroyed?

2. Why did Papa have to stop working?

3. How did Francisco know Papa was sick?

4. What did Gabriel refuse to do for the contractor and why?

5. What kept Gabriel from hitting the contractor?

6. What does Orosi mean, and why was this so important to Francisco?

7. What did Francisco have to prepare for at the end of the book?

8. Why was Francisco so excited about his home in Orosi?

9. What happened to Francisco at the end of the book?

10. What did Francisco like the most about Ito?

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