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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. Where was Peralta born?

2. What is Peralta's little brother's name?

3. Which senator does Peralta begin the book with a quote from?

4. What do the older kids at Resurrection call Peralta when they make fun of him?

5. In Chapter 7, what does Peralta do with his friends that he later has doubts about?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Peralta's family first come to America?

2. Why does Peralta's family end up in a homeless shelter in Part I?

3. What was Peralta's and his family's main holiday diversion during his childhood while they lived in the homeless shelter?

4. What is Maria scared that Peralta and Yando might become?

5. Why is Peralta's mother reluctant to return to the Dominican Republic?

6. Why does Peralta decide he wants to attend an Ivy League school?

7. Why does Peralta's mother tell him he needs to be prepared for something happening to her?

8. Why does one of Maria's friends think that Peralta might not be her son?

9. Why do Peralta and Yando keep their shoes on in the shower at the homeless shelter?

10. What does Peralta do at Resurrection Sunday school to make the teacher want to introduce him to the priest?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Peralta feel about his mother Maria's decision to begin doing domestic labor like house-cleaning due to her lack of legal immigration status? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay explaining the impact that Jeff has on both Peralta's and Yando's lives, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 3

How does hearing some of his Princeton classmates' hard-line views on immigration change Peralta's ideas about his own role in the country's immigration debate? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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