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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was one reason Manny's dad did NOT cite when listing why he would not agree to apply for welfare?
(a) The whole neighborhood would find out they were on welfare.
(b) They would make a copy of his driver's license and it would stay in the welfare office's files.
(c) Social workers would visit their home and treat them like criminals.
(d) The money they would get would not be enough to support them anyway.

2. How did Manny's father lose his job as a translator for the city?
(a) He quit because of unfair pay.
(b) He was laid off due to governmental cutbacks.
(c) He called in sick too many times.
(d) He drank beer during lunch and came back to work slurring his words.

3. While Manny and his mother were watching Manny's father trying to start the car, what was Manny's little sister Pedi doing?
(a) Studying a caterpillar in her hands.
(b) Asking her father to take her with him to the pool hall.
(c) Playing Jacks on the porch.
(d) Erasing sparrow tracks from the dusty porch.

4. As Manny's father walked away from the car that would not start, what did Bobby and Stinky do to annoy him?
(a) Sprayed a hose in his direction.
(b) Whistled at him.
(c) Yelled insults at him.
(d) Threw gravel at him.

5. What caused Manny to curse while in the back seat of the car after the family had picked up Manny's father from the pool hall?
(a) He saw the Garcia brothers running toward the car.
(b) He got mad at his father for staying too long at the pool hall.
(c) He remembered that he had left his quarter inside the pool hall.
(d) He burned his arm on the car door.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two activities most often occurred at the Big Lawn?

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

3. Once the Immigration officers had departed with their prisoners, what did everyone left claim they had done to help the Mexican people?

4. Though Manny described the houses in their project development as being not "pretty or stylish" (23) he said that sometimes they had one quality that made them beautiful. What was that one quality?

5. What did Manny's mother do upon hearing him curse?

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