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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 7-8 (pages 332-355).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Candidó encounter as he is coming out of the park?
(a) Delaney.
(b) Coyotes.
(c) The light-skinned Mexican.
(d) Mexicans.

2. How old is América?
(a) About thirty-five.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Fifty-two.

3. What is inside the bag the accident victim carries?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Tortillas.
(c) A baby.
(d) Money.

4. How much money does Candidó make the first day of working for Al Lopez?
(a) Two hundred dollars.
(b) Ten dollars.
(c) Fifty dollars.
(d) He is paid in food and alcohol.

5. Where does Candidó build a shelter for his family?
(a) Between two dumpsters behind a convenience store.
(b) In a junkyard full of old cars.
(c) In the brush below the fence surrounding Arroyo Blanco Estates.
(d) In the newly-burned section of the woods.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Delaney's column anger readers?

2. What does Kyra do about the Mexican laborers outside the 7-Eleven?

3. What do América and Candidó fight about before she goes to the labor exchange?

4. What does Delaney receive for free at the grocery store?

5. Whose face appears on the camera film set up near the gate?

(see the answer key)

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