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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 does Rat use to light his hole dwelling?
2. For what purpose does Senator Zapanta order police to clear squatter camps?
3. What two names does Rat call Olivia in lieu of using her first name?
4. How much money does Marco tell Gardo he wants in order to produce the Bible Gardo seeks?
5. What does Olivia say is the most seductive thing in the world?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Rat describe his relationship with Father Juilliard and how does this relationship affect Rat's decision to steal money from the school's safe?
2. What are the main duties required within Olivia's position as house mother for the mission school?
3. According to Mohun in his diary printed in The Daily Star newspaper, what might Senator Zapanta do to him in retaliation for his accusations?
4. How does Gabriel Olondriz say he has ended up in Colva Prison?
5. Of what crimes was Gabriel Olondriz falsely accused after his attempt to expose Senator Zapanta's corruption?
6. What are all of the ways in which Senator Zapanta's property compound is protected?
7. When the boys are fleeing their small room by jumping from rooftop to rooftop, Rat says, "Under us and all around us, though, the world was full of noise" (178). To what noises is he referring?
8. When the boys hide inside a small room within a tenement building, who first detects approaching danger and leads the other two boys out through the hole in the roof to safety?
9. The first two paragraphs of the Star Extra newspaper report included within the novel suggest that the police will soon find the money stolen from Senator Zapanta's house. Why are the police confident in their ability to find the money?
10. When Raphael and Gardo use Gabriel Olondriz's Bible in order to decipher the code included within the letter the boys had found within the train station locker, why is Rat unable to help them decipher the message and how does this inability add to the difference between him and the other two boys?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the interplay between the climax of the novel Trash and its denouement. How does the author employ them and how does their juxtaposition help him get across the main message of the novel? Use quotes from the narrative to prove your claim.
Essay Topic 2
Though the reader may expect that the end of the novel will end in a realistic and probably bleak way in order to reflect the realities of children mired in poverty and exploitation, the author chooses instead to depict a neatly tied-up and happy ending for the boys. Explain the author's purpose in attaching a happy ending to a wholly bleak yet realistic portrayal of the misery in which some children live in the twenty-first century. Include concrete details from the novel to support your points.
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast Raphael, one protagonist of Trash, to Gardo, another protagonist of the narrative. What is the author's purpose in providing these two protagonists and in using their respective narration sections in order to get across his desired messages? Provide concrete details from both novels in order to support your claims
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