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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 was the name of Robert's cell mate?

2. What does Dave do for a living?

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

4. Robert told his mother that he had been arrested for __________.

5. In which part of Los Angeles do the Chicano Militants live?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the area surrounding St. Basil's church?

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

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

4. Describe the demonstration.

5. What is Brown's role in the march in support of the East Los Angeles Thirteen?

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

7. What does the prisoner testify about the blankets?

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

9. What plans does Brown make in Chapter 4?

10. What problems does Bobby Kennedy's death cause the Chicano militants?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were Nixon's views on the Chicano Movement? What effect did his election to President have on the movement?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the author's writing style. How would you describe the author's prose style? What kind of vocabulary does he use? What meaning does the author's style give to the story?

Essay Topic 3

What were Bobby Kennedy's views on the Chicano Movement? What effect did his death have on the movement? How would the movement have developed if Kennedy had been elected President?

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