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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the play begin with?
(a) An explanation.
(b) An epilogue.
(c) An action sequence.
(d) A prologue.

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

4. Who is El Pachuco?
(a) The chorus.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The star of the play.
(d) The main character.

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

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

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

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

9. In Act 1, scene 8, Henry brags that no matter what happens he will do what?
(a) Stand up for the Chicano way of life.
(b) Be a pachuco for life.
(c) Come out on top.
(d) Join the military.

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

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

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

13. George is angry because what is being withheld from the gang members?
(a) Familial visits.
(b) Food.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Clean clothing.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does El Pachuco think Henry's idea of fighting in the military is ridiculous?

5. What does Henry tell George when George convinces him to let him work for the boy?

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