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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 is the subject of one of Delaney's columns?

2. What causes Candidó's first marriage to end?

3. Who is Dominick Flood?

4. What happens to Candidó when he drinks the dirty water?

5. Who or what ends up killing one of the family's dogs?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the topic of conversation at the first gathering at Arroyo Blanco Community Center?

2. What is Kyra's response to the large group of Mexican men sitting outside a convenience store?

3. How does Kyra come to decide that the 'real' money is in developing rather than in real estate?

4. Why does América knock on the front door of her employer's home in the middle of the workday?

5. What does Kyra give Delaney when he helps her close the Da Ros place? What does Delaney tell her when she describes to him why she likes the mansion?

6. Describe Delaney's encounter at Arroyo Blanco Estates with the Mexican who wears his hat backward.

7. What sort of interactions occur in the car between América and the fat man?

8. What does Candidó do after he is replaced by a legal immigrant on Lopez's crew?

9. What does Candidó do after he realizes that the labor exchange has been torn down?

10. Describe the first interaction between Delaney and Candidó.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the characters of Delaney and Candidó. How are their lives different? How are the characters the same?

Essay Topic 2

Critical events in Boyle's story revolve around the Thanksgiving holiday, and the term "pilgrim" is mentioned at least twice throughout the story. Why do you think Boyle chose Thanksgiving and pilgrims in this particular book? What sort of meanings are attached to the terms? How do those meanings relate to the themes of the book?

Essay Topic 3

How is the sexual assault on América foreshadowed in the earlier part of the book? Do you expect her to be assaulted? Why or why not?

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