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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who represents the people who learn about life by living it?
(a) Della and Allison.
(b) Rafas and Ruby.
(c) Henry and El Pachuco.
(d) Rosarita and Jose.

2. What does El Pachuco believe should be most important to a true pachuco?
(a) Country.
(b) Loyalty.
(c) Community.
(d) Honor.

3. What do George and Alice try to do to Henry when the Judge declares a break in the court proceedings?
(a) Get him new clothes.
(b) Comfort him.
(c) Reassure him.
(d) Get him to relax.

4. What is the sound that is blaring at the beginning of Act 1, scene ii?
(a) Car horns.
(b) Sirens.
(c) Beat boxes.
(d) Music.

5. What does the zoot suit take a lot of to make?
(a) Cloth.
(b) Money.
(c) Time.
(d) String.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Press, how many members of Henry's gang are arrested?

2. What does El Pachuco do when Henry's mother and father leave?

3. What does the play begin with?

4. El Pachuco describes the "Pachuco" as part mythic what?

5. The powerful pachuco dream, according to El Pachuco, is to be a proud and ______ Chicano.

(see the answer key)

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