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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. El Pachuco says Henry should stay and fight a war in his hometown against what?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Unemployment.
(c) Prejudice.
(d) Crime.

2. How is the truth about what happened the night of the raid revealed?
(a) Through flashbacks.
(b) Through an aside.
(c) In a soliloquy.
(d) In a narrative.

3. In Act 1, scene 10, Henry and Della are strolling where?
(a) On the beach.
(b) In a field.
(c) Down the town square.
(d) In the moonlight.

4. When George Shearer meets the boys for the first time, he says he is a lawyer hired to do what?
(a) Protect the boys' parents.
(b) Represent the boys.
(c) Protect the boys' gang.
(d) Keep the boys out of jail.

5. El Pachuco describes the "Pachuco" as part mythic what?
(a) Man.
(b) Tale.
(c) Hero.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry's mother send him in prison that he never receives?

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

3. In Act 1, scene 5, what do the questions from the Press hint at?

4. Where does Henry put his knife?

5. What does the play begin with?

(see the answer key)

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