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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Berets believe was the one purpose of white people?
(a) To keep to themselves.
(b) To make themselves rich.
(c) To take all of the good jobs.
(d) To oppress people of color.

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

3. After his grandfather had become riddled with dementia, what is the one memory Manny said that his grandfather had still clung to?
(a) Rebecca's breaking of the pinata beneath the cherry tree.
(b) The beautiful recognition of his wife's face.
(c) The Mexico desert he had crossed when coming to America.
(d) The prejudice he had experienced as a Mexican-American man.

4. What did Manny use to keep Pedi occupied while he was watching her during Magda's date with her secret boyfriend?
(a) Tiddlywinks.
(b) Dominoes.
(c) Jacks.
(d) Monopoly.

5. When Manny and Rebecca got to the pool hall to find Manuel, who told Rebecca that Manuel had already gone home?
(a) Manny.
(b) Mr. Sanchez.
(c) Rico.
(d) The Garcia brothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What errand did Manny's mother send him to his school to accomplish even though it was still summer?

2. While Manny and his mother were watching Manny's father trying to start the car, what was Manny's little sister Pedi doing?

3. In contrast to Manny's father's method of worrying aloud, Manny said his mother was more quiet and would take which two actions while she worried?

4. What example from her own life did Rebecca cite when she told Magda not to ruin her life like she had?

5. What question did Malcolm Augustus, Chico's opponent, know the answer to when no one else in Manny's biology class had known?

(see the answer key)

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