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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what did Papa get paid an hour working for Ito?

2. In Chapter 4, what accident did Trampita have in Mexico?

3. In Chapter 10, what time did Roberto and Francisco get home from the movies?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 10 in the fall, what job did Papa get?

5. In Chapter 5, how many acres did Francisco's father sharecrop in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 7, how did Francisco look when his father cut his hair, and how did his mother help him?

2. In Chapter 7, why was Francisco the only one who joined Papa picking strawberries in the summer?

3. In Chapter 6, how did Francisco and his classmates practice for their eighth grade graduation?

4. What happened when Francisco was in eighth grade?

5. In Chapter 5, what did Francisco do to deal with the boredom of picking strawberries?

6. In Chapter 5, what happened when Francisco's father tried to be a sharecropper?

7. In Chapter 9, how did Francisco get athlete's foot?

8. In Chapter 8, what classes was Mr. Kinkade, Francisco's counselor, going to put Francisco in, and why did he change his mind?

9. In Chapter 8, what did Francisco decide to memorize and why?

10. In Chapter 1, why did Roberto and Francisco go back to the United States alone?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Francisco named the chapters in his book. Did the chapter titles reveal what was going to happen in a chapter? Would the chapter titles be considered spoilers?

Essay Topic 2

Francisco was very close to his family. How did the family need one another just to survive? Why was family so important to each one of them?

Essay Topic 3

Francisco had light skin and could have passed as white, but he did not. What discrimination did Francisco face as a Mexican immigrant? Why did he not try to pass as white to avoid that discrimination? How did he embrace his Mexican heritage?

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