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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What type of technique is used to make Henry's trial a joke?
(a) Satire.
(b) Ridicule.
(c) Aristotilian events.
(d) Confluence.

4. In Act 2, scene 8, what happens with the appeal?
(a) The boys lose.
(b) It is overturned.
(c) The boys win.
(d) It is denied.

5. Which character lists the headlines that appears in the papers after the arrests and the raid?
(a) Lt. Edwards.
(b) El Pachuco.
(c) Press.
(d) Henry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the play begin with?

2. According to El Pachuco, why is Alice asking Henry questions?

3. What is the last thing that happens before the jury deliberates?

4. The tension is between the Chicanos and what other ethnic group?

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

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