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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. What causes Gardo to consent to a plan to visit the train station, even though he has been reluctant to do so?
(a) Raphael threatens to go with Rat and to leave Gardo out of the trip.
(b) Rat threatens to go with Raphael and to leave Gardo out of the trip.
(c) He thinks two weeks is sufficient for the danger to have passed.
(d) He finds out that the train station is due for renovation soon.

2. Who tries to keep the dumpsite boys away from the crane-belts while they are running?
(a) The school teachers.
(b) The government officials.
(c) The guards.
(d) The older men.

3. What does Raphael say has happened more often to Gardo than to him?
(a) Contractions of disease.
(b) Lucky finds.
(c) Loss of family members.
(d) Beatings.

4. What location does Raphael decide the boys must visit in order to deliver the letter they have found in the train station locker?
(a) Cuervo Prison.
(b) Colva Prison.
(c) Sing Sing Prison.
(d) Leavenworth Prison.

5. When the boys retrieve the envelope from the locker at the train station, what is on the slip of paper attached to the letter inside the envelope?
(a) First aid instructions.
(b) An algebraic equation.
(c) A string of numbers.
(d) Bank account numbers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Raphael's aunt tell him to do with the wallet he has found?

2. How many crates are initally donated in order to create the Mission School?

3. What feature of the boys' does Father Juilliard say fills the room when they come to the Mission School to use the computer?

4. From what material is the Mission School made?

5. What does Father Juilliard say are "what we live by, even though we all know they're sometimes foolish" (52)?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Raphael says that he and Gardo might as well be brothers, what evidence does he give to support this conclusion?

2. Besides the cash, what item inside the leather bag convinces Rat that Jose Angelico, the purported owner of the bag, is a wealthy man?

3. Which of the three boys is chosen to open the train station locker with the key from inside the found leather bag and why?

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

5. What are all of the items of value that Raphael and Gardo find inside the "special" (18) containing the mysterious and money-laden leather bag?

6. Describe Raphael's house in Behala.

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

8. What does Grace say about where she imagines Pia Dante is now?

9. List three physical changes that occur within Raphael's body as a result of his terror at being hauled away from his house by the police.

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

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