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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The powerful pachuco dream, according to El Pachuco, is to be a proud and ______ Chicano.
(a) Rich.
(b) Visible.
(c) Powerful.
(d) Handsome.

2. When George loses he temper when the boys question him, what does he say the organization he works for tries to do?
(a) Wipe out prejudice.
(b) Prevent cover-ups.
(c) Wipe out bad investigations.
(d) Wipe out bad police officers.

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

4. Where does the fight that Edwards and Smith want Henry to tell them about occur?
(a) Sleepy Lagoon.
(b) Sleepy Cove.
(c) Sleepy River.
(d) Sleepy Cave.

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

6. What is the technique called that exposes flaws by making them extreme?
(a) Satire.
(b) Exaggeration.
(c) Ridicule.
(d) Irony.

7. What is El Pachuco doing at the beginning of Act 1, scene 7?
(a) Commenting on the action.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Singing.

8. Who takes Henry out of the line-up and throws him to the floor?
(a) Smith.
(b) Banks.
(c) Edwards.
(d) Franks.

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

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

11. The tension is between the Chicanos and what other ethnic group?
(a) Blacks.
(b) Asians.
(c) Middle Easterners.
(d) Whites.

12. Before leaving, Alice reassures Henry that she believes what?
(a) That their lives will be better.
(b) In the fairness of the courts.
(c) That they will get a fair trial.
(d) In his innocence.

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

14. Why does El Pachuco think Henry's idea of fighting in the military is ridiculous?
(a) Because the country doesn't treat him like a proper citizen.
(b) Because law enforcement don't like him.
(c) Because he isn't allowed to vote.
(d) Because he isn't allowed to be a citizen.

15. How is everyone dancing at the end of Act 1, scene 7?
(a) Smoothly.
(b) Wildly.
(c) Rythymically.
(d) Calmly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is a zoot suit cut?

2. Where does Henry put his knife?

3. Who is El Pachuco?

4. The type of people Alice and George represent are common at the time of the play, and when else?

5. What type of trial does George tell the boys they will face?

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