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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose fight prompted the police to come to where Luis's family was staying in the beginning of the book?
(a) Seni and her husband.
(b) Luis and his father.
(c) Rano and Luis.
(d) Rano and his mother.

2. Why do Luis and his friends want to go to high school midway through the story?
(a) To score drugs.
(b) To meet girls.
(c) To gang up on the Lomas.
(d) To learn.

3. Who is Roberta?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A girl Luis meets and falls in love with.
(c) A cousin.
(d) A girlfriend of a rival gang member.

4. Why is the gang taken into custody after the fight at the beach?
(a) Assaulting a police officer.
(b) Drugs and alcohol.
(c) Weapons.
(d) Fighting.

5. How soon is Luis supposed to come after Santos in the revenge plot?
(a) 5 minutes.
(b) 10 minutes.
(c) 2 mintues.
(d) 1 minute.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the neighborhood plan to do about gang violence?

2. What happens to Luis's family after the police come to their home in the beginning of the book?

3. What high school does Luis attend?

4. Where did that memory take place that is described at the beginning of the book?

5. Who did a group of bikers accost midway through the book?

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