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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How much money do the police officers offer to give every family in Behala if someone finds and turns in the missing bag?
(a) 1,000 pesos.
(b) 100 pesos.
(c) 500 pesos.
(d) 2,500 pesos.

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

4. How much money does Raphael say he can get from one half-good tire that he finds at the dumpsite?
(a) A quarter of a dollar.
(b) Half of a dollar.
(c) One tenth of a dollar.
(d) One dollar.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the word people in the area use to demonstrate respect for their elders when addressing them?

2. What excuse does Rat give to Father Juilliard when Rat wants to use the school's computer?

3. Raphael relates that his life consists of living "day to day" (6) and of hoping for what?

4. Why is there no stupp in the trash from the McKinley neighborhood?

5. How many people were killed when Smoky Mountain collapsed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is different about the day the police come to orchestrate the search for the leather bag, versus a normal day within the dumpsite?

2. Why do Raphael and Gardo continue working nonchalantly after they find the leather bag full of money?

3. What is a "special" (18) and how does the idea of a "special" widen the scope of the reader's understanding of Trash's setting?

4. How does Raphael know that the police do not know that there was a key among the items inside the leather bag for which they are searching?

5. What does Raphael say is the reason for Jose Angelico's arrest?

6. Describe the scene in which Raphael is taken from his home and is forced into the police car.

7. What reason does Grace give for Pia Dante not having lived with her father, Jose Angelico, while he was still alive?

8. What reasons does Gardo give for wanting to be patient and putting off their visit to the train station to check out what is inside the locker?

9. What does Father Juilliard say about his imminent departure from his position running the Pascal Aguila Mission School?

10. Who was Pascal Aguila?

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