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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. What do five white men do to Jose and Carlos?
(a) Take them away to Mexico
(b) Kidnap them
(c) Kill them
(d) Bribe them

2. How does the group that lives together in the Hope Street apartment try to pay their rent?
(a) Steal
(b) Dance at the dance hall
(c) Bootleg
(d) Sell everything

3. What work do Amado and his friend Alfredo do?
(a) Thieves
(b) Bootlegger
(c) Work in the tomato fields
(d) Bus drivers

4. At what age does Carlos leave home?
(a) 18
(b) 13
(c) 10
(d) 15

5. How does Carlos know that a revolt is about to begin?
(a) He sees the police lining up in the fields
(b) Felix tells him
(c) His little sisters tell him
(d) His mother tells him

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carlos find his mother doing when he finally finds her?

2. Where does Carlos find Jose?

3. What develops in Carlos as a direct result of his family losing its land?

4. Why does Carlos begin drinking and roaming around the West Coast?

5. Where is Carlos when he is arrested and put in jail?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Carlos, Jose and Miller escape?

2. Why does the family have to close the store that Luciano and Carlos opened?

3. Why do the striking workers organize their own patrols?

4. What happens to Alonzo?

5. Why does Miss Strandon arrange for Carlos' job at the library?

6. Why does Carlos leave the homeless shelter?

7. How does Carlos convince Amado that he is indeed his brother?

8. What do Felix, Nick and Carlos decide they must work on to improve?

9. What must Carlos take before he can board the boat to America?

10. What event makes Carlos' desire to be a doctor more concrete for him?

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