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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What race is Tommy?
(a) White.
(b) Black.
(c) Asian.
(d) Chicano.

3. What is the sound that is blaring at the beginning of Act 1, scene ii?
(a) Car horns.
(b) Beat boxes.
(c) Sirens.
(d) Music.

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

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

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

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

8. Who is Henry's girlfriend when Henry appears for the first time in the play?
(a) Ella.
(b) Vella.
(c) Stella.
(d) Della.

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

10. 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 in the field.
(c) What happened at the barn.
(d) What happened the night of the dance.

11. How many parts are there in Act 1, scene iv?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

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

13. What job does Alice say she has?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Social activist.
(c) Immigration lawyer.
(d) Public defender.

14. 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) Others.
(b) His race.
(c) His gang.
(d) His community.

15. Alice and George represent well-meaning what?
(a) Intellectual leftists.
(b) Intellectual social engagers.
(c) Intellectual rightists.
(d) Intellectual conservatives.

Short Answer Questions

1. The gang sees Alice and George's intentions as being fine in theory, but what?

2. Where does Henry put his knife?

3. What is Henry going to learn the extent of in the courtroom?

4. Who is El Pachuco?

5. Who observes the police raid in the barrio?

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