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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of job does Luis's father get in the flashback in the beginning of the book that prompts him to buy a better home and other things?
(a) A substitute teaching position.
(b) A factory worker.
(c) A principal position.
(d) A union job.

2. What does Jandro have Luis and Rano steal?
(a) Bikes.
(b) Food.
(c) Guns.
(d) Specific cars.

3. Who is often ill in the family?
(a) Luis's mother.
(b) Luis's sister.
(c) Luis's father.
(d) Luis.

4. Who works at a car wash when Luis's mother tell the boys to get jobs?
(a) Seni.
(b) Luis's dad.
(c) Luis and Rano.
(d) Luis's mom.

5. What do Rano and Luis steal for Shed Cowager?
(a) Guns.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Cars.
(d) Bikes, jewerly, and other things.

6. What is the gang's connection to the vacant lot?
(a) They never go near it.
(b) The gang has claimed it as their own.
(c) They rent it.
(d) They sell it.

7. What happens the first time Luis begins school in America?
(a) He is tranferred to a different school.
(b) He speaks English clearly.
(c) A teacher objects to having him in the class.
(d) A teacher welcomes him with open arms.

8. What happens when people sign up to get a subscription that Luis and Rano are selling in the neighborhood?
(a) They tell him to go away.
(b) They sign up for the free gift but never pay.
(c) They spit in his face.
(d) They run away before paying.

9. Why does the gang plan a trip to a "real beach?"
(a) To celebrate a birthday.
(b) Because it's hot.
(c) To get away from rival gangs.
(d) To celebrate Clavo coming home from the hospital.

10. Who is the friction between at the beach?
(a) Surfers and beaners.
(b) Luis and Rano.
(c) Luis and Clavo.
(d) Seni and her husband.

11. Who is Luis with when he finds the police at their home?
(a) Rano.
(b) Seni.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

12. In what country did Luis's family originally live?
(a) Puerto Rico.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Mexico.
(d) Spain.

13. How is Jandro Mares described in the book?
(a) A family friend.
(b) As a 30-year-old budding entrepreneur.
(c) As a friend of Ranos.
(d) As a friend of Luis.

14. What did Luis's mother buy him in the memory at the beginning of the book?
(a) A comic book.
(b) A candy bar.
(c) A lollipop.
(d) A toothbrush.

15. Who has children from previous relationships between the relationship between Luis's mom and dad?
(a) Both.
(b) Luis's dad.
(c) Luis's mom.
(d) Neither.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who took care of Seni for so long that she didn't recognize her own father?

2. Who usually doesn't go to the "real beach?"

3. Who ends up painting a mural on the concession stand that is the scene of a gang incident?

4. How old was Luis in the memory he recalls at the beginning of the book?

5. Which gang member is shot in the face near the vacant lot?

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