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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Rano?
(a) Luis's younger brother.
(b) Luis's dad.
(c) Luis's grandfather.
(d) Luis's older brother.

2. What does Shed give Luis and Rano for stealing?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Cash.
(c) Guns.
(d) Checks.

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

4. Why was Luis's father jailed after his parents were married?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Stealing.
(d) Gambling.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who works at a car wash when Luis's mother tell the boys to get jobs?

2. Where does Luis's family have to put all of their possessions when they have to move after the father loses his job?

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

4. What does Jandro have Luis and Rano steal?

5. How long did Luis's father's new job last?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the people in "Thee Impersonations" desire?

2. How did Luis's family end up settling in Los Angeles?

3. What happens when the gang goes to a "real beach?"

4. What happens to Clavo's feelings about the gang after he is shot in the eye?

5. What happens when Luis's father gets a better job?

6. What happens when the students at Luis's father's school can't understand his accent?

7. After they leave Seni's, how is Luis' new neighborhood described?

8. Why did Luis break his toys at Christmas?

9. What does the gang discover about the white people at the beach?

10. What happens to the person who took up the challenge to fight with the whites at the beach?

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