View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the role of El Pachuco at the beginning of Act 1, scene iii?
(a) Henry's conscience.
(b) Henry's confidante.
(c) The narrator.
(d) A commentator.

5. When Henry starts listening to El Pachuco, it shows he is starting to act less in his own interests and more in the interests of what?
(a) His gang.
(b) His community.
(c) His race.
(d) Others.

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

7. Just because Tommy is integrated into the gang does not mean the gang trusts what?
(a) All rich people.
(b) All lawyers.
(c) All whites.
(d) All leaders.

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

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

10. The type of people Alice and George represent are common at the time of the play, and when else?
(a) In the 1800s.
(b) In the 80s.
(c) Today.
(d) In the 20s.

11. According to El Pachuco, what era of the Chicanos wanted to live the powerful pachuco dream?
(a) 20s.
(b) 50s.
(c) 30s.
(d) 40s.

12. The gang sees Alice and George's intentions as being fine in theory, but what?
(a) Slow in practice.
(b) Hard to accomplish in reality.
(c) Ineffective in practice.
(d) Not based in reality.

13. Where does El Pachuco take the story at the end of Act 1, scene 8?
(a) To the news station.
(b) To the newsroom.
(c) To the courtroom.
(d) To the courthouse.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Henry's girlfriend when Henry appears for the first time in the play?

2. What era is El Pachuco's zoot suit from?

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

4. George is angry because what is being withheld from the gang members?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 425 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample