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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 does Rafa cal his father's beatings?
(a) The devil's hand
(b) A learning curve
(c) The hand of God
(d) Collateral damage

2. What kind of animal does Mami buy to slaughter?
(a) A pig
(b) A goat
(c) A cow
(d) A sheep

3. Who supports the family while the father is gone?
(a) A priest
(b) The grandfather
(c) An uncle
(d) The grandmother

4. What does the narrator call his father?
(a) Daddy
(b) Pa
(c) Papa
(d) Papi

5. Where has the narrator's father gone to?
(a) America
(b) Germany
(c) England
(d) Brazil

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's aunt give him to eat?

2. What part of Ysrael's body did the pig eat off?

3. What does Yunior remember his father wearing?

4. What does Yunior imagine his father tracing on his cheek?

5. What part of America do the family move to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at the corner?

2. What does the reader know about Papi from the other stories?

3. Who do the narrator and Cut sell drugs to?

4. How does the narrator feel when his girlfriend is released from the juvenile hall?

5. Why does Yunior call his mother shadow warrior?

6. What is chapter four about?

7. What happens to Rafa and the narrator on the bus?

8. What homosexual experiences has Yunior had?

9. In what condition is the narrator's girlfriend?

10. Why is Papi upset with the narrator?

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