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

2. What object did Manuel use to signal Manny that he wanted him to go his room?
(a) His watch.
(b) His hat.
(c) A chinaberry branch.
(d) A cigarette.

3. 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 her friend Linda's house.
(c) In the back bedroom to watch Pedi.
(d) To their neighbor Sophie's house.

4. What meaning did Manuel ascribe to the note that Rebecca had left him about going to get her hair done at Sophie's?
(a) He thought it symbolized how little time she spent with him as of late.
(b) He was angry that she was spending money on hairstyling.
(c) He thought Rebecca wanted to leave him.
(d) He thought that Rebecca was not at Sophie's but was instead out cheating on him.

5. What did Manuel exclaim when he first arrived home from the Pool Hall after a two-day binge?
(a) "I got a job!"
(b) "I'm home!"
(c) "It's all over now!"
(d) "Everybody come out here now!"

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Rebecca keep looking back over her shoulder when she was taking Manny home from the pool hall?

2. Where was Manny's $20 located when Manuel took it from him?

3. Though kids were not allowed at the pool hall, where was Manny sometimes allowed to sit in order to wait for his dad?

4. According to Manny, what did Mr. Hart's office smell like?

5. What did Manny mean when he said, "I was of my grandpa Ignacio's line of useful blood?" (6)

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect does the simile have on the reader when Manny saw a van coming toward the fields and described it as "approaching like a dog sneaking up on a bush" (13)?

2. What is significant about how Rebecca behaved during the scene in which the police came into the Hernandez's home?

3. What caused Rebecca to think that Manuel was somewhere in the pool hall even though Rico told her that Manuel had gone home?

4. What happened to alert Rebecca that Manuel was angry with Manny and that that was the reason he would not leave the pool hall after spending Manny's $20 on alcohol?

5. Why did Manny travel to his school even though it is still summer?

6. What did Manny mean when he said, "Miracles don't wait for doubters" (8) once Nardo had agreed to come work in the fields with him?

7. What parallel did Manny draw between his grandfather Ignacio's personality and his own personality?

8. Why did Mr. Hart take a roundabout way when he took Manny home?

9. How does the theme of domestic violence arise sharply within the scene when Manuel returns from his two-day drinking binge?

10. What kind of relationship did Manny's father and mother have?

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