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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kyra discover in Agoura?
(a) Her long lost mother.
(b) A litter of coyote pups.
(c) A three-story mansion.
(d) A commune of Mexican immigrants.

2. What happens to the bills Candidó is saving?
(a) It burned in the fire.
(b) Someone mugged Candidó and stole his wallet.
(c) Someone stole it while Candidó was sleeping.
(d) He lost them in the river when he fell in.

3. What does Kyra decide she needs to save from the fire?
(a) Clothing and toiletries.
(b) Real estate documents.
(c) Photo albums.
(d) Her jewelry.

4. What holiday do Kyra, Delaney, Jordan, and other residents of Arroyo Blanco Estates celebrate together?
(a) Labor Day.
(b) Independence Day.
(c) Thanksgiving.
(d) Easter Sunday.

5. What does América decide to name the baby?
(a) Resurrección.
(b) Candida.
(c) Edna.
(d) Socorro.

6. What does Jordan search for in his home?
(a) His favorite shoes.
(b) His cat.
(c) His favorite book.
(d) His stuffed animals.

7. Whose face appears on the camera film set up near the gate?
(a) Jack, Jr.'s.
(b) América's.
(c) Kyra's.
(d) Candidó's.

8. Who canvasses the neighborhood with Kyra?
(a) Osbert.
(b) Jack.
(c) América.
(d) Delaney.

9. What change does Candidó notice in América since their return from Canoga Park?
(a) She becomes obsessed with bathing.
(b) She seems to enjoy spending time with him.
(c) She is more motivated to tend to housekeeping duties.
(d) She becomes depressed.

10. Why does Delaney attack the man in the baseball cap?
(a) The man spit on Delaney.
(b) The man intentionally built the wall in Delaney's backyard poorly.
(c) The man tried to assault Delaney's wife.
(d) The man tries to steal Delaney's wallet.

11. What does Delaney do to the incriminating pictures of the people who spray-painted the gate?
(a) Gives them to the people in the picture.
(b) Turns them into the local police.
(c) Destroys them.
(d) Photocopies them.

12. Who or what enters the shed just as América is about to give birth?
(a) A cat.
(b) A dove.
(c) Kyra and Jordan.
(d) Her mother and father.

13. Who does Kyra complain to about the squatters?
(a) No one.
(b) The Sheriff's Department.
(c) Candidó.
(d) Jordan.

14. Which characters are carried away by the water down the hillside?
(a) Delaney, Candidó, and Jack Jardine.
(b) Delaney, Kyra, and Jordan.
(c) Jack, Jr., Dominick Flood, and Delaney.
(d) Candidó, América, and Socorro.

15. Who extends his hand to lift Delaney to safety from the flood?
(a) Candidó.
(b) Jordan.
(c) Jack Jardine.
(d) The light-skinned Mexican.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of weather does fall bring in Los Angeles, according to the narrator?

2. What does Delaney overhear Jack, Jr., saying about Mexican girls?

3. Where does Jordan stay after the attack on the family dog?

4. Which of the following characters says the fence surrounding Arroyo Blanco Estates makes her feel safer?

5. Where does Candidó build a shelter for his family?

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