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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does El Pachuco do when Henry's mother and father leave?
(a) Cry.
(b) Give an aside.
(c) Sing.
(d) Dance.

2. When does the Downey gang disappear from the fight between Henry and Rafas?
(a) When Rafas beats up Henry.
(b) When Rafas orders them to leave.
(c) When Henry lets Rafas go.
(d) When Henry beats up Rafas.

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

4. Who represents the people who learn about life by reading about it?
(a) The Press.
(b) The policemen.
(c) Alice and George.
(d) The judge and the Press.

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

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

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

8. El Pachuco tells Henry that George and Alice are using him for what?
(a) AS a poster boy for injustice.
(b) Money.
(c) To get ahead in the world.
(d) Their own purposes.

9. Who observes the police raid in the barrio?
(a) The lawyers.
(b) INS.
(c) The federal agents.
(d) The press.

10. What kind of cops are leading the investigation that Henry is involved in?
(a) Honest cops.
(b) Lazy cops.
(c) Tough cops.
(d) Hard-working cops.

11. What is exploding at the beginning of Act 1, scene ii?
(a) Flashbulbs.
(b) Cars.
(c) Pipe bombs.
(d) People's tempers.

12. Where does Act 1, scene iii take place?
(a) At a trial.
(b) At a police station.
(c) In a courthouse.
(d) In jail.

13. Where does Henry put his knife?
(a) At Rafas' throat.
(b) At Rafas' knee.
(c) At Rafas' arm.
(d) At Rafas' ear.

14. In Act 1, scene 5, what do the questions from the Press hint at?
(a) Shoddy investigative work.
(b) Beatings.
(c) A frame-up.
(d) Prejudice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the fight that Edwards and Smith want Henry to tell them about occur?

2. El Pachuco describes the "Pachuco" as part heroic what?

3. What is the sound that is blaring at the beginning of Act 1, scene ii?

4. Other than Henry, what is the name of one of the gang members in prison?

5. Why does Henry get involved in the fight between Rudy and Rafas?

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