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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. What is the group tense about?

2. Where does Brown travel to meet Cesar Chavez?

3. With which of the following people does Brown live?

4. What did the police threaten to do to Lupe when she asked them what happened?

5. With what are thirteen of the Chicano Militants being charged?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Brown deal with the situation after the police have made their arrests?

2. What does Brown do after Robert's hearing?

3. Why does the court issue a restraining order against the East LA Thirteen?

4. What problems do Brown and the law students cause Cardinal McIntyre in this section?

5. Why is the Belmont hotel a place for Brown to live?

6. What agreement does Brown make with Gilbert in this section?

7. What are the results of Robert's autopsy?

8. How did Robert Fernandez reportedly die?

9. Why does Brown decide to move away from his sister?

10. What problems do the Chicano Militants have at the beginning of Chapter 5?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does a movement such as the Chicano Movement need to make itself heard? Did the Chicano Movement do enough to make the public aware of them? What more could they have done?

Essay Topic 2

Who were the Chicano militant leaders? What were their role in the Chicano Movement? How does Acosta represent each one in the book? How do these representations contribute to the book's overall meaning?

Essay Topic 3

In what way could the Chicano Movement be described as a terrorist group? In what way have the police and society forced them to become such a group? What comment does this make about terrorist groups in general?

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