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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Rat know that the key Raphael has found belongs to a locker at the train station?
(a) He had picked a train passenger's pocket once.
(b) He had noticed the initials CS on the key and had surmised that the initials stood for Central Station.
(c) He had worked as a train conductor for a short time.
(d) He had lived at the train station for nearly a year before coming to Behala.

2. What does Raphael's aunt tell him to do with the wallet he has found?
(a) Give it to the police the following morning.
(b) Throw it back into the trash piles.
(c) Throw it into the sea.
(d) Burn it.

3. How many basketball courts does Raphael estimate the dumpsite to be in area?
(a) 500.
(b) 250.
(c) 100.
(d) 1,000.

4. How old is Father Juilliard?
(a) 75.
(b) 42.
(c) 63.
(d) 36.

5. What object does Raphael admit to finding at the dumpsite when he is interrogated at the police station?
(a) A key.
(b) 1,100 pesos.
(c) An empty leather bag.
(d) An empty wallet.

6. How many pesos does the wallet contain that Raphael finds on Thursday?
(a) 800.
(b) 1,100.
(c) 300.
(d) 500.

7. What color of plastic fetches the best prices, according to Raphael?
(a) Black.
(b) White.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

8. Raphael describes the mountains of trash as stretching from the sea to the what feature?
(a) Jungles.
(b) Marshlands.
(c) Plateaus.
(d) Estuaries.

9. The view from the top of the trash mountain provides a look at what natural feature?
(a) The peninsula.
(b) The sea.
(c) The river.
(d) The lake.

10. Why is there no stupp in the trash from the McKinley neighborhood?
(a) Because there are special stupp-cleaners there.
(b) Because there are toilets there.
(c) Because they trade their stupp for better stupp.
(d) Because they recycle all of their stupp there.

11. Raphael relates that his life consists of living "day to day" (6) and of hoping for what?
(a) That he does not die.
(b) That he does not get attacked by the older men.
(c) That he can find a treasure.
(d) That he does not get sick.

12. When the police ask Raphael about the bag he has found and he denies finding a bag, what does he say he has found instead?
(a) A shoe.
(b) A basketball.
(c) An umbrella.
(d) A cigarette.

13. What is the word people in the area use to demonstrate respect for their elders when addressing them?
(a) Po.
(b) La.
(c) Ra.
(d) So.

14. How many van-loads of police arrive at Raphael's house when they come to arrest him?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

15. How old is Olivia?
(a) 45.
(b) 32.
(c) 22.
(d) 19.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money do the police officers offer to give every family in Behala if someone finds and turns in the missing bag?

2. In what type of structures do most of Raphael's neighbors live?

3. Of what objects does Father Juilliard say that Rat's fingers remind him?

4. What does Raphael say he cannot stop doing when he is arrested and is being dragged to the police car?

5. How many days of school do children at the Mission School have to attend in order to earn their two kilograms of rice?

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