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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. Where does the group hold a demonstration at the end of this section?

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

3. What is the group tense about?

4. What church are the six Chicano law students fighting against?

5. What does Brown say the East Angeles Thirteen were speaking out against?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do Robert family refuse to believe that Robert hanged himself?

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

4. What does Mickey De Silva say he remembers about the night Robert supposedly hanged himself?

5. What does the prisoner testify about the blankets?

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

7. What does Brown arrange at the coroner's office?

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

9. How does Brown become part of the Chicano Militant group?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following trials and examine how its outcome affected the Chicano Movement: The Tooner Flats Seven,The St. Basil Twenty One, and The East Los Angeles Thirteen.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the values of the 1960s. In what ways are the characters a product of their time? How does the book express the changes America was going through at the time?

Essay Topic 3

What were the lives of Mexicans like in America before the Chicano Movement existed? How did the Chicano Movement change life for Mexicans in America?

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