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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Part 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the start of the trial announced at the beginning of Act 1, scene 8?
(a) With headlines.
(b) With a television reporter.
(c) By George.
(d) By El Pachuco.

2. What do Rafas and Henry pull out during the fight?
(a) Guns.
(b) Switchblades.
(c) Whips.
(d) Butcher knives.

3. What does Henry believe the police will do to throw him in jail?
(a) Make him commit another crime.
(b) Set him up on a phony charge.
(c) Set people up to accuse him.
(d) Charge him with a parole violation.

4. How does Act 2 start?
(a) With the families of the gang members.
(b) With the riots.
(c) With a prologue.
(d) With scene 1.

5. What does Henry tell George when George convinces him to let him work for the boy?
(a) What happened at the diner.
(b) What happened at the barn.
(c) What happened in the field.
(d) What happened the night of the dance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Henry put his knife?

2. How does Henry react to George and Alice's actions during the break in the court proceedings?

3. What sentence do Henry and the others receive?

4. El Pachuco's defiance at the end of Act 2, scene 6, suggests that clothes do not what?

5. Henry asks Alice to pass along his love for whom?

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