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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 church are the six Chicano law students fighting against?

2. What event was Manny considered a contender for in the 1952 Olympic Games?

3. Gilbert wants Brown to write for which newspaper?

4. What did Robert's family notice on Robert's face at his funeral?

5. What are Brown and the group doing around a lake near Edwards AFB?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the meeting between Brown and the Chicano Militants in this section?

5. Why does the mayor want to talk to Brown and the East Los Angeles Group?

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

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

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

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

10. Why did the police arrest Robert Fernandez?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did the politics of the sixties change America? How does Acosta express these changes in his book?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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