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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 takes Pichuca and Tomas to Isabel's house in Chapter Seventeen?
(a) Gustavo.
(b) Felipe.
(c) Triste.
(d) The Gringo.

2. What new job does Anibal give Tomas in Chapter Fifteen?
(a) Singer.
(b) Cook.
(c) Garbage man.
(d) Priest.

3. What does the Priest prize that Tomas does at Automotores?
(a) Cleaning work.
(b) Eating.
(c) Singing.
(d) Praying.

4. Why does Elizabeth want her old cell back?
(a) It has a shower.
(b) It has cutains.
(c) It has a water fountain.
(d) It has a hole she can use as a toilet, so she will not have to call a guard to take her.

5. In Chapter Eleven, what conversations with Claire does Tomas recall?
(a) The ones about his mother.
(b) The ones about his schooling.
(c) The ones about his nightmares.
(d) The ones about his cigarettes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isabel tell Tomas when he tells her his work at Automotores is going to break him?

2. What exact date is the coup in Argentina?

3. How does Tomas try to find Elizabeth in New York?

4. What does Tomas's mother ask him if he is doing too much of in Chapter Nineteen?

5. Where was The School of the Americas once located?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gustavo tell Tomas and Pichuca to do on the drive to his house with Isabel?

2. What do Tomas's co-workers at Automotores call him, and why?

3. How does Tomas try to find Elizabeth when he gets to America?

4. What does Tomas do in Chapter Seventeen that is a great risk to himself?

5. What does Isabel show Tomas in the shed behind her house?

6. Why is Tomas's mother getting increasingly worried about him in Buenos Aires in Chapter Ten?

7. What job does the Colonel end up arranging for Tomas?

8. What does Tomas recall about his mother's death?

9. What happens when Tomas's mother visits in Chapter 11?

10. In Chapter Seventeen, why is Pichuca very worried?

(see the answer keys)

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