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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the street sweeper look at Raphael strangely when Raphael asks the street sweeper for a cigarette?
(a) Cigarettes are rare due to rationing.
(b) Raphael's face is covered in blood.
(c) Raphael is too young to smoke.
(d) The street sweeper is deaf.

2. From what material is the Mission School made?
(a) Canvas.
(b) Mud.
(c) Iron.
(d) Wood.

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

4. What place do the foreigners visit when they come to the dumpsite in which the rubbish boys work?
(a) Raphael's home.
(b) The area's single church.
(c) City Hall.
(d) The Pascal Aguila Mission School.

5. At what age does Raphael say he started to sort trash at the dumpsite?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

6. What do the dumpsite boys spend their days looking for in the trash heaps?
(a) Anything they can give to the foreigners.
(b) Anything they can sell.
(c) Anything they can use.
(d) Anything they can give to their families.

7. For how many years has Gabriel Olondriz been in prison?
(a) 36.
(b) 12.
(c) 3.
(d) 23.

8. For how long has Father Juilliard been running the Pascal Aguila Mission School?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 14 years.
(c) 8 years.
(d) 7 years.

9. How many days of school do children at the Mission School have to attend in order to earn their two kilograms of rice?
(a) 5.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 3.

10. What is Rat's real name?
(a) Mei-Mei.
(b) Jun-Jun.
(c) Aezhelle.
(d) Toc.

11. What does Father Juilliard say are "what we live by, even though we all know they're sometimes foolish" (52)?
(a) Accidents.
(b) Coincidences.
(c) Pieces of advice.
(d) Rules.

12. When Father Juilliard first sees Gardo for the first time, what does he think that Gardo has enough poise and grace to be?
(a) A ballerina.
(b) A politician.
(c) A freedom fighter.
(d) An athlete.

13. How many people were killed when Smoky Mountain collapsed?
(a) Nearly 300.
(b) Nearly 50.
(c) Nearly 200.
(d) Nearly 100.

14. After Raphael decides not to tell the police about the leather bag quite yet, who tells the police about his find instead?
(a) Raphael's uncle.
(b) Raphael's aunt.
(c) Gardo's cousin.
(d) Gardo's sister.

15. 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) An umbrella.
(b) A cigarette.
(c) A shoe.
(d) A basketball.

Short Answer Questions

1. What location does Raphael decide the boys must visit in order to deliver the letter they have found in the train station locker?

2. To what police station is Raphael taken upon his arrest?

3. How old are Raphael and Gardo within the narrative?

4. What does Father Juilliard say he has to use in order to bribe the children to attend school?

5. What color of plastic fetches the best prices, according to Raphael?

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