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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Henry's father?
(a) Juan.
(b) Enrique.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Carlos.

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

3. What does Henry's mother not want him to wear to the dance?
(a) A gang sweatshirt.
(b) Gang colors.
(c) A zoot suit.
(d) A t-shirt and jeans.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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) Others.
(c) His race.
(d) His community.

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

12. 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.

13. How is a zoot suit cut?
(a) Narrow and close-fitting.
(b) Large and baggy.
(c) Loose and tailored.
(d) Slim and tight.

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

15. What does Rafas do to Rudy in the first scene of the play?
(a) Hits him.
(b) Shoves him.
(c) Kicks him.
(d) Punches him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character lists the headlines that appears in the papers after the arrests and the raid?

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

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

4. What does El Pachuco believe should be most important to a true pachuco?

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

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