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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Manuel was trying to shoot Rebecca, what alerted Manny to the fact that the police had arrived?
(a) The sound of deeply-threaded tires against asphalt.
(b) Sophie screaming that the police were coming.
(c) Police lights.
(d) Police sirens.

2. What did Manny's mother do upon hearing him curse?
(a) She told him calmly that he was grounded for the next week.
(b) She pleaded with Manny's father to discipline him when they arrived home.
(c) She smacked him in the mouth.
(d) She yelled at him in Spanish.

3. What two activities most often occurred at the Big Lawn?
(a) Baseball and football.
(b) Soccer and football.
(c) Badminton and bocce ball.
(d) Baseball and softball.

4. Where did Rebecca tell Magda to go once she and Manny had returned home from the pool hall?
(a) To the pool hall.
(b) To their neighbor Sophie's house.
(c) In the back bedroom to watch Pedi.
(d) To her friend Linda's house.

5. When Magda went to meet a boy behind the house and Rebecca was putting things away at Grandma Rosa's and Manny stayed home to watch Pedi, where was Manuel?
(a) At the bar.
(b) At Rico's Pool Hall.
(c) At work.
(d) At Grandma Rosa's helping Rebecca.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Manuel exclaim when he first arrived home from the Pool Hall after a two-day binge?

2. What objects did Manny's and Nardo's father give them in which they could collect chili peppers in the fields?

3. What did Manuel do when Mr. Hart moved to shake his hand?

4. What was one fruit that did NOT grow on the tree Manny's grandfather had created by grafting many different branches together?

5. What does the Spanish word "perico" (51) mean?

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